TY  - BOOK
AU  - Grainger,Corbett A.
AU  - Kolstad,Charles D.
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - Who Pays a Price on Carbon?
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - August 2009; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - We use the 2003 Consumer Expenditure Survey and emissions estimates from an input-output model to estimate the incidence of a price on carbon induced by a cap-and-trade program or carbon tax in the US context. We present results on how much difference income deciles pay for a carbon tax as well as which industries see the largest increase in costs due to a carbon tax.  We illustrate the main determinant of the regressivity: consumption patterns for energy-intensive goods. We find that a policy targeting CO2 from energy consumption is more regressive than a price on all emissions. Furthermore, on a per-capita basis a carbon price is much more regressive than calculations at the household level. We discuss policy options to offset the adverse distributional effects of a carbon emissions policy
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w15239
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w15239
ER  -