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Egg-Timer: Environmental Risks and Property Markets Location: D-110 Session Chair: Elizabeth Anderson, University of Wisconsin - Madison | |
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Information Shocks and Attitudes towards Nuclear Power: Empirical Evidence from Iodine Tablets and Swiss Direct Democracy University of Lucerne, Switzerland We examine whether a salient information shock about local nuclear power risk, generated by the pre-distribution of iodine tablets to households within fixed hazard zones around Swiss nuclear power plants, affects nuclear-related voting behaviour. Exploiting eligibility at the sharp distribution boundary, we implement a geographic regression discontinuity design comparing outcomes of nuclear-related, direct-democratic popular votes between adjacent municipalities just inside and just outside the zone. We find no statistically significant positive effects of the iodine tablet distribution on anti-nuclear vote shares and voter turnout. Our findings suggest that the visible-to-voters intervention does not increase perceived risk or negatively affect revealed preferences over nuclear power, which implies that governments can implement precautionary measures on civil-protection grounds without triggering political backlash. | |