Distributional Effects of Reducing Carbon Dioxide Emissions With a Carbon Tax: Working Paper 2021-11

Dorian Carloni and Terry Dinan

No 57399, Working Papers from Congressional Budget Office

Abstract: Putting a price on emissions of carbon dioxide, either by taxing them or by establishing a cap- and-trade program, is one policy that lawmakers could consider to address climate change. Although such a policy could encourage cost-effective reductions in emissions throughout the economy, lawmakers have expressed concern about whether it would disproportionately affect lower-income households.Determining the distributional effects—that is, the effects on households at different income levels—of a policy that would price carbon emissions (referred to in this

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Date: 2021-09-13
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