Do Pollution Markets Harm Low Income and Minority Communities? Ranking Emissions Distributions Generated by California's RECLAIM Program
Erin T. Mansur, Glenn Sheriff
We compare the spatial distribution of emissions from Southern California's pollution-trading program with that of a counterfactual command-and-control policy. We develop a normatively significant metric with which to rank the various distributions in a manner consistent with an explicit well-behaved preference structure. Results suggest trading benefited all demographic groups and generated a more equitable overall distribution of emissions even after controlling for its lower aggregate emissions. Upper-income and white demographics had more desirable distributions relative to low-income and some minority groups under the RECLAIM trading program, however, and population shifts over time may have undermined anticipated gains for African Americans
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March 2019
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Authors: | Mansur, Erin T. |
Other Persons: | Sheriff, Glenn (contributor) |
Institutions: | National Bureau of Economic Research (contributor) |
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2019: Cambridge, Mass : National Bureau of Economic Research |
Subject: | Umweltbelastung | Pollution | Niedrigeinkommen | Low income | Luftverschmutzung | Air pollution | Ethnische Gruppe | Ethnic group | Emissionshandel | Emissions trading | Treibhausgas-Emissionen | Greenhouse gas emissions | Minderheit | Minority |
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freely available
Extent: | 1 Online-Ressource illustrations (black and white) |
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Series: | NBER working paper series ; no. w25666 |
Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Notes: | System requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files Mode of access: World Wide Web Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers |
Other identifiers: | 10.3386/w25666 [DOI] |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479617