TY  - JOUR
A1  - Dorband, Ira Irina
A1  - Jakob, Michael
A1  - Kalkuhl, Matthias
A1  - Steckel, Jan Christoph
T1  - Poverty and distributional effects of carbon pricing in low- and middle-income countries - A global comparative analysis
JF  - World development
N2  - Even though concerns about adverse distributional implications for the poor are one of the most important political challenges for carbon pricing, the existing literature reveals ambiguous results. For this reason, we assess the expected incidence of moderate carbon price increases for different income groups in 87 mostly low- and middle-income countries. Building on a consistent dataset and method, we find that for countries with per capita incomes of below USD 15,000 per year (at PPP-adjusted 2011 USD) carbon pricing has, on average, progressive distributional effects. We also develop a novel decomposition technique to show that distributional outcomes are primarily determined by differences among income groups in consumption patterns of energy, rather than of food, goods or services. We argue that an inverse U-shape relationship between energy expenditure shares and income explains why carbon pricing tends to be regressive in countries with relatively higher income. Since these countries are likely to have more financial resources and institutional capacities to deal with distributional issues, our findings suggest that mitigating climate change, raising domestic revenue and reducing economic inequality are not mutually exclusive, even in low- and middle-income countries. (C) 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
KW  - Carbon pricing
KW  - Distributional effect
KW  - Decomposition analysis
KW  - Global comparison
KW  - Household data
KW  - Low- and middle-income countries
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.11.015
SN  - 0305-750X
VL  - 115
SP  - 246
EP  - 257
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Oxford
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Dorband, Ira Irina
A1  - Jakob, Michael
A1  - Kalkuhl, Matthias
A1  - Steckel, Jan Christoph
T1  - Poverty and distributional effects of carbon pricing in low- and middle- income countries
BT  - a global comparative analysis
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - Even though concerns about adverse distributional implications for the poor are one of the most important political challenges for carbon pricing, the existing literature reveals ambiguous results. For this reason, we assess the expected incidence of moderate carbon price increases for different income groups in 87 mostly low- and middle-income countries. Building on a consistent dataset and method, we find that for countries with per capita incomes of below USD 15,000 per year (at PPP-adjusted 2011 USD) carbon pricing has, on average, progressive distributional effects. We also develop a novel decomposition technique to show that distributional outcomes are primarily determined by differences among income groups in consumption patterns of energy, rather than of food, goods or services. We argue that an inverse U-shape relationship between energy expenditure shares and income explains why carbon pricing tends to be regressive in countries with relatively higher income. Since these countries are likely to have more financial resources and institutional capacities to deal with distributional issues, our findings suggest that mitigating climate change, raising domestic revenue and reducing economic inequality are not mutually exclusive, even in low- and middle-income countries.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe - 103 
KW  - carbon pricing
KW  - distributional effect
KW  - decomposition analysis
KW  - global comparison
KW  - household data
KW  - low- and middle-income countries
Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-424592
SN  - 1867-5808
IS  - 103
ER  -