This study explores the link between environmental degradation, economic growth and income inequality within the … framework of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) literature. To investigate this issue, we examine how inequality affects … carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and their relationship with economic growth. We show that the results heavily depend on the …

In this paper we investigate the relationship between inequality and the environment in a growing economy from a … political economy perspective. We consider an endogenous growth economy, where growth generates pollution and a deterioration of … the environment. Public expenditures may either be devoted to supporting growth or abating pollution. The decision over …

inequality, environmental protection, and growth. …? In this paper, we explore the hypothesis that societies characterised by low-income inequality (such as the Nordic …, income distribution influences the stringency of environmental policy and consequently the growth of a country. Individuals …

This paper presents a novel way to disentangle inequality aversion over time from inequality aversion between regions … of inequality aversion. We use two integrated assessment models (FUND and RICE) for our numerical exercise to get more … robust findings. Our results suggest that inequality considerations lead to a higher (lower) SCC values in high (low) income …

inequity, whether across states of world (uncertainty), across individuals (inequality) and across generations …

social preferences in different economic systems. We introduce inequality-averse and inefficiency-averse agents responding to …

environment ('grease the wheels' and 'sand the wheels'). Corruption is observed to considerably increase income inequality in …

China is faced with the big challenge of maintaining a remarkable economic growth in an environmental friendly manner … result. This paper firstly constructs Theil index to measure the intra-and inter regional inequality of CO2 emissions, we … the Spatial Durbin model is employed to shape the relationship between mitigation and economic growth using the panel data …

diffuses spatially across locations. The result is an endogenous growth theory that can shed light on the link between the …