Science Daily has a nice summary of a recent research paper published in Psychological Science about people’s willingness to pay for higher environmental quality. A particularly well-known theory in this area is the environmental Kuznets curve, which relates increased wealth to increased acceptance of costs for a higher quality environment. These researchers instead looked at the acceptance of these costs across individuals of different political leanings.

For those of you who enjoy academic papers, or are otherwise interested in the nitty-gritty, you can read the paper itself at the principal author’s website.