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Description:
We conduct a large scale survey of Swedish households to measure how much they understand about the science behind environmental impact, their financial literacy, as well as their understanding of their own knowledge of these matters. We find only moderate correlation in knowledge between environmental and financial knowledge, but find the correlation of overestimation across domains to be sizable. Overestimation of environmental knowledge crowds out actual knowledge when explaining fears of climate change and reported recycling behavior, and is also strongly associated with beliefs that environmentally sustainable firms generate higher returns and with the willingness to pay higher fees for sustainable mutual funds