Grunewald, Nicole; Klasen, Stephan; Martínez-Zarzoso, … - Courant Research Centre PEG - 2011
We document a U-shaped relationship between income inequality and carbon dioxide emissions per capita, using a newly … available panel data set on income inequality (GINI) with observations for 138 countries over the period 1960–2008. Our findings … suggest that, for high-income countries with high income inequality, pro-poor growth and reduced per capita emissions levels …