Income Inequality and Residential Carbon Emissions in the United States: A Preliminary Analysis

Jorgenson, Andrew K.; Schor, Juliet B.; Huang, Xiaorui; Fitzgerald, Jared B.

doi:10.22459/her.22.01.2015.06

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“…Evidence shows that there is a positive correlation between income per capita and CO 2 emissions per capita [10] . The poor tend to increase their consumption in carbon-intensive categories as they move into the middle class [44] . The rising middle and wealthy classes have become the major driving forces of CO 2 emissions increase [45] .…”

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CO2 emissions inequality through the lens of developing countries

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2021

Applied Energy

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CO2 emissions inequality through the lens of developing countries

Huang

2021

Applied Energy

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“…More recently, Jorgenson et al. () investigate the relationship between U.S. state‐level residential carbon emissions and income inequality for the 1990–2012 period. Results of the analysis indicate a positive association between emissions and income inequality—measured as the Theil index—and these findings hold across a variety of model estimation techniques and net of the effects of other human drivers of emissions.…”

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Domestic Inequality and Carbon Emissions in Comparative Perspective

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Drawing from multiple bodies of literature, the authors investigate the relationship between consumptionbased carbon emissions and domestic income inequality for 67 nations from 1991 to 2008. Results of twoway fixed-effects longitudinal models indicate that the relationship between national-level emissions and inequality changes through time and varies for nations in different macroeconomic contexts. For high-income nations, the relationship shifts from negative to positive, suggesting that in recent years, income inequality in such nations increases carbon emissions. For middle-income nations, the association is negative, and becomes increasingly negative in the later years of the study. For low-income nations, the relationship between carbon emissions and domestic income inequality is null for the entire 1991 to 2008 period. These diverse results hold, net of the effects of other well-established human drivers of emissions, including population size, level of economic development, and urbanization. The authors conclude by emphasizing the need for future research on greenhouse gas emissions and domestic inequality, and the central role that sociology should play in this emerging area of inquiry.

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“…As the problems of climate change and rising economic inequality become more urgent, greater scholarly attention is being paid to the ways in which they are interrelated (e.g., Chancel and Piketty 2015). One line of research in environmental sociology has begun to examine the effects of domestic economic inequality on anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions using data at national and sub-national scales (e.g., Jorgenson et al 2015; Jorgenson et al 2016; Jorgenson et al 2017). A deeper understanding of this relationship could facilitate policies aimed at addressing economic inequality that also mitigate emissions, and vice versa (Kenner 2016).…”

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Wealth Inequality and Carbon Emissions in High-income Countries

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This study contributes to the emerging literature on connections between climate change and economic inequality by investigating the relationship between domestic wealth inequality and consumption-based carbon emissions for 26 high-income countries from 2000 to 2010. Results of the two-way fixed effects longitudinal models indicate that the effect of wealth inequality, measured as the wealth share of the top decile, on per capita emissions in high-income countries is consistently positive and relatively stable over the time period. This finding is consistent with political economy theories arguing that the concentration of political and economic power that accompanies the concentration of wealth plays an important role in increasing environmental degradation and preventing proenvironmental actions.

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Income Inequality and Residential Carbon Emissions in the United States: A Preliminary Analysis

Cited by 36 publications

References 41 publications

CO2 emissions inequality through the lens of developing countries

CO2 emissions inequality through the lens of developing countries

Domestic Inequality and Carbon Emissions in Comparative Perspective

Wealth Inequality and Carbon Emissions in High-income Countries

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