全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Per Capita Income, Consumption Patterns, and CO\u2082 Emissions

G2TT

来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w24923
来源ID	Working Paper 24923
	Per Capita Income, Consumption Patterns, and CO\u2082 Emissions
	Justin Caron; Thibault Fally
发表日期	2018-08-20
出版年	2018
语种	英语
摘要	This paper investigates the role of income-driven differences in consumption patterns in explaining and projecting energy demand and CO₂ emissions. We develop and estimate a general-equilibrium model with non-homothetic preferences across a large set of countries and sectors, and trace embodied energy consumption through intermediate use and trade linkages. Consumption of energy goods is less than proportional to income in rich countries, and more income-elastic in low-income countries. While income effects are weaker for embodied energy, we find a significant negative relationship between income elasticity and CO₂ intensity across all goods. These income-driven differences in consumption choices can partially explain the observed inverted-U relationship between income and emissions across countries, the so-called environmental Kuznets curve. Relative to standard models with homothetic preferences, simulations suggest that income growth leads to lower emissions in high-income countries and higher emissions in some low-income countries, with only modest reductions in world emissions on aggregate.
主题	International Economics ; Trade ; Development and Growth ; Development ; Environmental and Resource Economics ; Energy ; Environment
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w24923
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/582597
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Justin Caron,Thibault Fally. Per Capita Income, Consumption Patterns, and CO\u2082 Emissions. 2018.

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