News organizations constitute key sites of science communication between experts and lay
audiences, giving many individuals their basic worldview of complex topics like climate …

Abstract The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change)" Special Report on Global
Warming of 1.5 C" presented the ambitious target of needing to achieve zero net emissions …

We examine whether beliefs about climate change affect loan officers' mortgage lending
decisions. We show that abnormally high local temperature leads to elevated attention to …

The public's understanding of climate change has been plagued by poor communication,
misinformation, and disinformation. Fortunately, there is a growing body of research on …

In response to suggestions that, in the West, inaction on climate change is due to climate
change's perceived temporal and spatial distance, we examine how people in California …

Climate change was hardly debated during the 2016 US presidential campaign. Against this
background and building upon Fraser's concept of counterpublics (1990), this paper …

An extensive literature is dedicated to examining the proliferation of private sector-led,
market-based approaches to address gender inequality. Drawing on insights from feminist …

We document a strong negative effect of local temperature anomaly on mortgage credit
origination at the US county level. A 1 F increase in the past 36-month average temperature …

The news media remains as one of the most important sources of societal uptake of climate
change information. Its potential to covertly shape public perception and attitudes regarding …

In this dissertation I address the question of how social-structural network processes (such
as the structural position of network actors, social influence, and social selection) are related …