ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2020
Social dimensions of fertility behavior and consumption patterns in the Anthropocene.
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- Economic factors underlying biodiversity loss.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Review
- Social norms and fertility intentions: Evidence from China.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Our future in the Anthropocene biosphere.Ambio · 2021Review
- Agricultural land use and the sustainability of social-ecological systems.Ecological modelling · 2020Article
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Abstract
We consider two aspects of the human enterprise that profoundly affect the global environment: population and consumption. We show that fertility and consumption behavior harbor a class of externalities that have not been much noted in the literature. Both are driven in part by attitudes and preferences that are not egoistic but socially embedded; that is, each household's decisions are influenced by the decisions made by others. In a famous paper, Garrett Hardin [G. Hardin,
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