What Factors Drive Inequalities in Carbon Tax Incidence? Decomposing Socioeconomic Inequalities in Carbon Tax Incidence in Ireland

Farrell, Niall

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2017.04.004

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“…The concern that carbon taxation can have regressive impacts among households of differing socioeconomic characteristics was first raised in the 1990s (see Speck, 1999, for a review). It has since been substantiated in a number of micro-simulation works, including Callan et al (2009) and Farrell (2017) for Ireland, Rausch et al (2011) and Fremstad and Paul (2017) for the United States, Liang and Wei (2012) for China, Beck et al (2015) for the Canadian province of British Columbia, and Berry (2019) and Douenne (2020) for France. These studies typically examine tax incidence on energy expenditure across and within income groups.…”

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Lump-sum vs. energy-efficiency subsidy recycling of carbon tax revenue in the residential sector: A French assessment

Bourgeois

Giraudet

Quirion

2021

Ecological Economics

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Empirical evidence suggests that carbon taxes are best accepted when their revenue is used to finance abatement measures. This revenue recycling option has however received little attention in modelling assessments. With the aim of filling this gap, we assess the impact of the French carbon tax on energy use for residential heating and compare the cost-effectiveness and distributional impacts of two revenue recycling options: lump-sum payment and subsidies for home energy retrofits. We do so using Res-IRF, an energy-economy model that provides a highly detailed description of housing features (single vs. multi-family, energy efficiency, heating fuel) and key household characteristics (tenancy status, income). We find that the two recycling options offset the regressive impacts of the tax in comparable ways. Lump-sum recycling is particularly effective in reducing inequalities between owner-occupiers and tenants. In turn, subsidy recycling saves energy and increases comfort more cost-effectively. In the discussion, we further point to some advantages of subsidy recycling from both a political and administrative perspective.

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confidence: 91%

Lump-sum vs. energy-efficiency subsidy recycling of carbon tax revenue in the residential sector: A French assessment

Bourgeois

Giraudet

Quirion

2021

Ecological Economics

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“…The impact of digital design and information technology (IT) is a hot topic (Farrell 2017;Yin et al 2019). Many scholars have researched on this field.…”

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Economic Impact of Information Industry Development and Investment Strategy for Information Industry

Lin

Jia

Song

2021

Journal of Global Information Management

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The information industry leads the digital revolution and innovation. With regards to what economic impact the development of the industry will bring about, there has been minimal focus from literature. This paper fills the knowledge gap by using a dynamic computable general equilibrium model. The results show the development will rapidly promote economic development and social welfare, promote the reduction of commodity prices and the rise of output by providing higher social productivity. Finance, public service, and some traditional industry (such as electricity) will benefit more when the information industry develops rapidly. At present, the industry development of the information industry is more directed at the service industry and final consumption. This paper implies the information industry can strengthen R&D investment towards supporting finance, public services and traditional industries, such as industrial control embedded software products, cloud computing technology, and emergency communication for traditional industries to increase the income.

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“…Ref analyzes the impact of increasing the level of compensation to offset these impacts, highlighting the fact that the number of ‘losers’ in low socioeconomic groups can outweigh the number of ‘winners.’ While compensating all ‘losers’ may be impractical, policymakers may thus need to also consider the balance of winners and losers for a given redistribution mechanism should they wish to compensate the majority of negatively affected households. Ref explores how unequal incidence of carbon taxation or other such policies may be decomposed by socioeconomic determinants. This informs policymakers about the socioeconomic groups most negatively affected and the relative weighting a suite of redistributive measures should place on each.…”

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Equity impacts of energy and climate policy: who is shouldering the burden?

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Lyons

2016

WIREs Energy & Environment

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Carbon pricing, technological supports, and energy subsidies comprise the mostoften implemented energy and climate policies. The cost of these policies has grown in recent years, resulting in equity impacts receiving greater attention by academics, policymakers, and the general public. While precise impacts are specific to particular circumstances, there are a number of primary channels through which energy and climate policies affect welfare. This paper gives an overview of how these channels operate. Where applicable, drivers of policy cost are outlined to show how these policies may grow to represent a meaningful welfare impact. Through case study analyses, we explain the most common mechanisms through which these policy costs drive equity outcomes. We review their implementation to date to give insight into the prevalence of these equity outcomes in an international context. Finally, we analyze the ability of remedial measures to counteract inequitable impacts.

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What Factors Drive Inequalities in Carbon Tax Incidence? Decomposing Socioeconomic Inequalities in Carbon Tax Incidence in Ireland

Cited by 37 publications

References 39 publications

Lump-sum vs. energy-efficiency subsidy recycling of carbon tax revenue in the residential sector: A French assessment

Lump-sum vs. energy-efficiency subsidy recycling of carbon tax revenue in the residential sector: A French assessment

Economic Impact of Information Industry Development and Investment Strategy for Information Industry

Equity impacts of energy and climate policy: who is shouldering the burden?

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