Income Inequality and Carbon Emissions
2011 | working paper
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Income Inequality and Carbon Emissions (Discussion Papers (Courant Research Centre "Poverty, Equity and Growth in Developing and Transition Countries: Statistical Methods and Empirical Analysis"))
Grunewald, N.; Klasen, S. ; Martinez-Zarzoso, I. & Muris, C. (2011)
Göttingen: Courant Research Centre ‘Poverty, Equity and Growth in Developing and Transition Countries: Statistical Methods and Empirical Analysis’. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2013039
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- Authors
- Grunewald, Nicole; Klasen, Stephan ; Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada ; Muris, Chris
- 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.
- Issue Date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Courant Research Centre ‘Poverty, Equity and Growth in Developing and Transition Countries: Statistical Methods and Empirical Analysis’
- Series
- Discussion Papers (Courant Research Centre "Poverty, Equity and Growth in Developing and Transition Countries: Statistical Methods and Empirical Analysis")
- Language
- English
