Improving the estimation of the distributional impacts of carbon pricing and targeted transfers to reduce its regressivity in Latin American countries

IF 6.6 2区经济学 Q1 ECOLOGY Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2024-08-09 DOI:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108336

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Abstract

This study simulates the distributional impacts of a carbon tax and targeted cash transfers to reduce its regressivity in ten Latin American countries. Unlike previous studies, the traditional top-down methodological approach is complemented with various elasticities to improve the precision of household expenditure and income changes. The results show that the increase in food and electricity prices are the ones that contribute the most to the rise in household expenditure in most of the countries analyzed. Also, it is shown that the omission of the shock on labor income causes an underrepresentation (overrepresentation) of the distributive impact of carbon pricing on the poorest (richest) households. Finally, it is concluded that cash transfers focused on quintile 1 reduce the regressive effect of this climate policy more strongly.

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改进碳定价和定向转移支付对分配影响的估算，减少其在拉丁美洲国家的累退性

本研究模拟了十个拉美国家征收碳税和定向现金转移以减少碳税倒退的分配影响。与以往研究不同的是，在传统的自上而下的方法论基础上辅以各种弹性系数，以提高家庭支出和收入变化的精确度。研究结果表明，在所分析的大多数国家中，食品和电力价格的上涨对家庭支出的增长影响最大。此外，研究还表明，忽略对劳动收入的冲击会导致碳定价对最贫穷（最富有）家庭的分配影响偏低（偏高）。最后，得出的结论是，侧重于五分之一人口的现金转移可以更有力地减少这一气候政策的递减效应。

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Ecological Economics 环境科学-环境科学

CiteScore

12.00

自引率

5.70%

发文量

313

审稿时长

6 months

期刊介绍： Ecological Economics is concerned with extending and integrating the understanding of the interfaces and interplay between "nature''s household" (ecosystems) and "humanity''s household" (the economy). Ecological economics is an interdisciplinary field defined by a set of concrete problems or challenges related to governing economic activity in a way that promotes human well-being, sustainability, and justice. The journal thus emphasizes critical work that draws on and integrates elements of ecological science, economics, and the analysis of values, behaviors, cultural practices, institutional structures, and societal dynamics. The journal is transdisciplinary in spirit and methodologically open, drawing on the insights offered by a variety of intellectual traditions, and appealing to a diverse readership. Specific research areas covered include: valuation of natural resources, sustainable agriculture and development, ecologically integrated technology, integrated ecologic-economic modelling at scales from local to regional to global, implications of thermodynamics for economics and ecology, renewable resource management and conservation, critical assessments of the basic assumptions underlying current economic and ecological paradigms and the implications of alternative assumptions, economic and ecological consequences of genetically engineered organisms, and gene pool inventory and management, alternative principles for valuing natural wealth, integrating natural resources and environmental services into national income and wealth accounts, methods of implementing efficient environmental policies, case studies of economic-ecologic conflict or harmony, etc. New issues in this area are rapidly emerging and will find a ready forum in Ecological Economics.