Plausibly Exogenous [1817] - Gender Norms (01/23/2025)

LHS Variable
Renewable energy adoption

RHS Variable
Gender norms

Source of Exogenous Variation
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the United Kingdom transported convicts to the penal colonies of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land. Most of the convicts who were sent to the colonies were men.

- Churchill, Smyth, and Trinh (2025), “Gender norms and solar panel energy adoption in Australia: Evidence from a natural experiment”