Understanding what influences the value of nature is crucial for informing environmental policy. From a sustainability perspective, economic valuation should not only seek to determine willingness to pay for environmental goods to devise an efficient allocation of scarce resources, but should...

This paper empirically investigates the effect of genetic diversity on income inequality in a large cross-section of countries. Previous studies demonstrated that ethnic, linguistic and religious fractionalization have significant impact on economic performance measures, but the effect will...

The question of whether changes in income inequality affect CO2 emissions remains a topic of debate at both theoretical and empirical levels. The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of changes in the full spectre of income distribution on consumptionbased CO2 emissions per capita. To...