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DOI | 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2016.12.016 |
Income Inequality and Carbon Emissions in the United States: A State-level Analysis, 1997-2012 | |
Jorgenson, Andrew1; Schor, Juliet2; Huang, Xiaorui2 | |
2017-04-01 | |
发表期刊 | ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS
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ISSN | 0921-8009 |
EISSN | 1873-6106 |
出版年 | 2017 |
卷号 | 134 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | USA |
英文摘要 | This study investigates the relationship between U.S. state-level CO2 emissions and two measures of income inequality: the income share of the top 10% and the Gini coefficient. Each of the inequality measures, which focus on unique characteristics of income distributions, is used to evaluate the arguments of different analytical approaches. Results of the longitudinal analysis for the 1997 to 2012 period indicate that state-level emissions are positively associated with the income share of the top 10%, while the effect of the Gini coefficient on emissions is non-significant. The statistically significant relationship between CO2 emissions and the concentration of income among the top 10% is consistent with analytical approaches that focus on political economy dynamics and Veblen effects, which highlight the potential political and economic power and emulative influence of the wealthy. The null effect of the Gini coefficient is generally inconsistent with the marginal propensity to emit approach, which posits that when incomes become more equally distributed, the poor will increase their consumption of energy and other carbon-intensive products as they move into the middle class. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. |
英文关键词 | Climate change Carbon emissions Income inequality Ecological economics Environmental sociology Sustainability |
领域 | 资源环境 |
收录类别 | SCI-E ; SSCI |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000395219300005 |
WOS关键词 | GREENHOUSE-GAS EMISSIONS ; CROSS-NATIONAL ANALYSIS ; ECOLOGICAL MODERNIZATION ; PANEL ANALYSIS ; CLIMATE-CHANGE ; ENVIRONMENT ; ECONOMY ; CITIES ; IMPACT |
WOS类目 | Ecology ; Economics ; Environmental Sciences ; Environmental Studies |
WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Business & Economics |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/15633 |
专题 | 资源环境科学 |
作者单位 | 1.Boston Coll, Dept Sociol & Environm Studies Program, 140 Commonwealth Ave, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 USA; 2.Boston Coll, Dept Sociol, 140 Commonwealth Ave, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 USA |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Jorgenson, Andrew,Schor, Juliet,Huang, Xiaorui. Income Inequality and Carbon Emissions in the United States: A State-level Analysis, 1997-2012[J]. ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS,2017,134. |
APA | Jorgenson, Andrew,Schor, Juliet,&Huang, Xiaorui.(2017).Income Inequality and Carbon Emissions in the United States: A State-level Analysis, 1997-2012.ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS,134. |
MLA | Jorgenson, Andrew,et al."Income Inequality and Carbon Emissions in the United States: A State-level Analysis, 1997-2012".ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS 134(2017). |
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