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UK households' carbon footprint : a comparison of the association between household characteristics and emissions from home energy, transport and other goods and services
Buchs, Milena; Schnepf, Sylke V. - 2013
Does the association between household characteristics and household CO2 emissions differ for different areas such as … compares how household characteristics like income, household size, rural/urban location and education level differ in their … association with home energy, transport, indirect and total emissions. We find that the association between household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009713124
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Something from nothing : estimating consumption rates using propensity scores, with application to emissions reduction policies
Bardsley, Nicholas; Büchs, Milena; Schnepf, Sylke V. - 2016
Consumption surveys often record zero purchases of a good because of a short observation window. Only mean consumption rates can then be inferred. We show that propensity scores can be used to estimate each unit's consumption rate, revealing the distribution. We demonstrate the method using the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452103
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Greenhouse gas mitigation and price-driven growth in a Solow-Swan economy with an environmental limit
Burda, Michael C.; Zessner-Spitzenberg, Leopold - 2024
The existence of an environmental limit in the Solow-Swan economy changes the nature of economic growth, but does not preclude it. When atmospheric greenhouse gases reach a predetermined absolute threshold, further growth requires a permanently expanding, resource-intensive mitigation effort. If...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014464116
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The welfare impact of price changes on household welfare and inequality 1999-2010
Loughrey, Jason; O'Donoghue, Cathal - 2011
position of the household in the income distribution and that behavioural response can potentially improve the welfare position …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009306839
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Who pays for higher carbon prices? : illustration for Lithuania and a research agenda
Immervoll, Herwig; Linden, Jules; O'Donogue, Cathal; … - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013499461
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Low emission zones for better health : evidence from German hospitals
Pestel, Nico; Wozny, Florian - 2019
This paper studies health effects from restricting the access of high-emission vehicles to innercities by implementing Low Emission Zones. For identification, we exploit variation in the timing and the spatial distribution of the introduction of new Low Emission Zones across cities in Germany....
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Income inequality and the size of government : a causal analysis
Guzi, Martin; Kahanec, Martin - 2018
Expansion of the public sector and redistributive policies may reduce income inequality, but formal tests suffer from the problem of endogeneity of government size with respect to the distribution of income. Studying 30 European countries over the period 2004-2015, we apply instrumental variable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011955505
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The redistributive effects of tax benefit systems in the enlarged EU
Fuest, Clemens; Niehues, Judith; Peichl, Andreas - 2009
How do different components of the tax and transfer systems affect disposable income inequality? This paper explores the redistributive effects of different tax benefit instruments in the enlarged EU based on two approaches. Inequality analysis based on the standard approach suggests that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003906234
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The impact of redistributive policies on inequality in OECD countries
Doerrenberg, Philipp; Peichl, Andreas - 2012
Recent discussions about rising inequality in industrialized countries have triggered calls for more government intervention and redistribution. Due to obvious behavioral effects caused by redistribution, it is however not clear whether redistributional policies are indeed able to combat...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009536424
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Social spending generosity and income inequality: a dynamic panel approach
Niehues, Judith - 2010
This paper explores if more generous social spending polices in fact lead to less income inequality, or if redistributive outcomes are offset by behavioral disincentive effects. To account for the inherent endogeneity of social policies with regard to inequality levels, I apply the System GMM...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009007489