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Inequality and the environment : the economics of a two-headed hydra
Drupp, Moritz A.; Kornek, Ulrike; Meya, Jasper; Sager, Lutz - 2021
Preserving environmental quality and addressing economic inequality both feature prominently in public discourse. Neither of these two issues can be fully understood in isolation, and policies aiming at one issue will increasingly have to consider interactions with the other. We synthesize...
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Global air quality inequality over 2000-2020
Sager, Lutz - 2024
Air pollution generates vast health burdens and economic costs around the world. Pollution exposure varies greatly … Global Burden of Disease framework, I find that mortality associated with PM2.5 exposure is even more unequal than pollution …
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Unilateral environmental policy and offshoring
Bolz, Simon J.; Naumann, Fabrice; Richter, Philipp M. - 2024
Expanding on a general equilibrium model of offshoring, we analyze the effects of a unilateral emissions tax increase on the environment, income, and inequality. Heterogeneous firms allocate labor across production tasks and emissions abatement, while only the most productive can benefit from...
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The economics of inequality and the environment
Drupp, Moritz A.; Kornek, Ulrike; Meya, Jasper; Sager, Lutz - 2024
Environmental degradation and economic inequality are two of the defining challenges of the twenty-first century. We synthesize conceptual mechanisms that underpin inequality-environment interlinkages and take stock of the relevant empirical evidence. We propose three channels of interaction,...
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The changing nature of pollution, income, and environmental inequality in the United States
Colmer, Jonathan; Qin, Suvy; Voorheis, John; Walker, W. Reed - 2024
particulate (PM2.5) exposure to study the evolution of the Black-White pollution exposure gap over the past 40 years. In doing so …-preserving compression in the overall pollution distribution and (2) changes that stem from a reordering of Black and White households within … the pollution distribution. We find a significant narrowing of the Black-White PM2.5 exposure gap over this time period …
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Emission targets and coalition options for a small, ambitious country : an analysis of welfare costs and distributional impacts for Norway
Fæhn, Taran; Yonezawa, Hidemichi - 2021
We theoretically and numerically analyse the impacts for a small, open country with carbon abatement ambitions of joining a coalition with allowance trading. Besides welfare impacts for both the coalition and the small, open economy joining the coalition, we scrutinise how the studied policy...
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Inequality measurement and tax/transfer policy
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2020
We provide a critique of the standard methodology which bases welfare comparisons between households on deflating household income and consumption by an equivalence scale. We argue that this leads to support for tax/transfer policies that significantly disadvantage low to middle in-come...
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Pro-rich inflation in Europe : implications for the measurement of inequality
Gürer, Eren; Weichenrieder, Alfons J. - 2018
This paper studies the distributional consequences of a systematic variation in expenditure shares and prices. Using European Union Household Budget Surveys and Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices data, we construct household-specific price indices and reveal the existence of a pro-rich...
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Fairness, trade, and inequality
Egger, Hartmut (contributor); Kreickemeier, Udo (contributor) - 2008
We develop a model of international trade between two symmetric countries that features inter-group inequality between entrepreneurs and workers, and also intra-group inequality within each of those two groups. Individuals in the economy are heterogeneous with respect to their entrepreneurial...
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Limited attention and income distribution
Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Mullainathan, Sendhil - In: The American economic review 98 (2008) 2, pp. 489-493
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