| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w24211 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 24211 |
| The Distributional Effects of Building Energy Codes | |
| Christopher D. Bruegge; Tatyana Deryugina; Erica Myers | |
| 发表日期 | 2018-01-22 |
| 出版年 | 2018 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | State-level building energy codes have been around for over 40 years, but recent empirical research has cast doubt on their effectiveness. A potential virtue of standards-based policies is that they may be less regressive than explicit taxes on energy consumption. However, this conjecture has not been tested empirically in the case of building energy codes. Using spatial variation in California’s code strictness created by building climate zones, combined with information on over 350,000 homes located within 3 kilometers of climate zone borders, we evaluate the effect of building energy codes on home characteristics, energy use, and home value. We also study building energy codes’ distributional burdens. Our key findings are that stricter codes create a non-trivial reduction in homes’ square footage and the number of bedrooms at the lower end of the income distribution. On a per-dwelling basis, we observe energy use reductions only in the second lowest income quintile, and energy use per square foot actually increases in the bottom quintile. Home values of lower-income households fall, while those of high-income households rise. We interpret these results as evidence that building energy codes result in more distortions for lower-income households and that decreases in square footage are responsible for much of the code-induced energy savings. |
| 主题 | Public Economics ; Taxation ; Environmental and Resource Economics ; Energy |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w24211 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/581884 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Christopher D. Bruegge,Tatyana Deryugina,Erica Myers. The Distributional Effects of Building Energy Codes. 2018. |
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| w24211.pdf（4657KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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