Environmental Quality and Income Inequality: The Impact of Redistribution on Direct Household Emissions in Italy

Laura Castellucci (), Alessio D’Amato () and Mariangela Zoli
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Alessio D’Amato: University of Rome “Tor Vergata”
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Rivista di Politica Economica, 2009, vol. 99, issue 3, 125-143

Abstract: This paper investigates the relation between income distribution and direct households’ emissions in Italy. Our results seem to confirm some recent articles concerned with incomepollution relationship in other countries. Indeed, our empirical analysis shows that decreasing inequality would lead to higher aggregate emissions, whereas increasing inequality would reduce environmental problems. By going into a deeper inquiry of such results, we identify some weaknesses in the framework proposed by the literature, namely the shape of emission intensities distribution. We show that changes in such distribution might lead to opposite conclusions.

Keywords: emissions; income inequality, household consumption (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D12 Q01 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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