Income Inequality and Carbon Emissions

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Other literature type , Research , Preprint 01 Jan 2012 Germany English Publisher:Elsevier BVJournal:SSRN Electronic Journal (eissn: 1556-5068,

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Authors: Nicole Grunewald; Stephan Klasen; Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso; Chris Muris;

doi: 10.2139/ssrn.2013039

handle: 10419/90461

Income Inequality and Carbon Emissions

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Abstract

We document a U-shaped relationship between income inequality and carbon dioxide emissions per capita, using a newly available panel data set on income inequality (GINI) with observations for 138 countries over the period 1960–2008. Our findings suggest that, for high-income countries with high income inequality, pro-poor growth and reduced per capita emissions levels go hand in hand.

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Germany

Related Organizations

Jaume I University
Spain
Institute for the Study of Labor
Germany
University of Göttingen
Germany
Center for Economic Studies
Germany

Keywords

environmental quality; income inequality; panel data, ddc:330, environmental quality, O1, Q3, panel data, I3, income inequality, jel: jel:O1, jel: jel:Q3, jel: jel:I3

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