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negatively affected by these impacts than others. While inequality of incidence by income group has received great attention in … the literature, a gap exists to quantify the inequality associated with socioeconomic characteristics. This information is …/or social transfers. This paper provides this contribution. First, the inequality of carbon tax incidence across the income …
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smokers was 0.039 (men 0.033; women 0.038). The majority of the inequality could be explained by educational attainment, age …
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By using estimates from an Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS), we investigate how the German energy tax on car fuels changes the private households-CO2 emissions, living standards, and post-tax income distribution. Our results show that the tax implies a trade-off between the aim to reduce...
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which carbon pricing can potentially affect poverty and inequality. It finds that the channels differ in important ways …
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Climate change policies have been rising to the top of the global political agenda, but how should governments finance them? Public economists propose solutions based on economic theory, but their political feasibility depends on voters' support, and ordinary households often neglect economic...
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