We investigate the association of new housing construction with sea level rise exposure and
climate change beliefs. We combine US Census construction permits data, sea level rise
projections, county-level climate change belief estimates (Howe et al., 2015), and standard
housing controls. The results suggest that (i) sea level rise vulnerability is associated with
significantly reduced construction in areas with high climate change beliefs, but that (ii) this
relationship is significantly attenuated in more skeptical areas, suggesting that climate …