Replication Data for: Education As Institutionalized Diffusion Path: A Mechanism For The Rise Of Environmental Concern

In this paper, we investigated the relationship between SES and environmental concern. We identify three shortcomings in existing empirical work: (1) inconsistent measure of environmental concern across countries; (2) miscoding/ incorrect testing of non-linear relationship, specifically cohort effect; and (3) the failure to distinguish education and income as proxies for SES. Furthermore, as an advancement of existing theory, we argue that education, as an institutionalized ideology diffusion tool, functions through an essentially distinct mechanism on environmental concern, compared to income. Treating education and income as equivalent proxy for SES oversimplifies the causal process. Moreover, whether the effect of education varies across cohorts is contingent on nation-level idiosyncratic characteristics. We test our theory in the context of United States using General Social Survey, three developed countries, Canada, Japan, and Germany, and three developing countries, India, China, and Mexico using World Value Survey.