Replication data for: Where is Pollution Moving? Environmental Markets and Environmental Justice
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Joseph S. Shapiro, University of California-Berkeley; Reed Walker, University of California-Berkeley
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Project Description
Summary:
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Do US air pollution offset markets disproportionately relocate pollution to or from low-income or minority communities? Concerns about an equal distribution of environmental quality across communities – environmental justice – have growing policy influence. We relate prices and quantities of offset transactions to demographics of the communities surrounding polluting plants. We find little association of offset prices or offset-induced movements in pollution with the share of a community that is Black, Hispanic, or with mean household income. This analysis of twelve prominent offset markets suggests that they do not substantially increase or decrease the equity of environmental outcomes.
Scope of Project
Subject Terms:
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Air Pollution;
environmental regulation;
environmental justice;
environmental markets
JEL Classification:
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D63 Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
H23 Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
Q52 Pollution Control Adoption and Costs; Distributional Effects; Employment Effects
Q53 Air Pollution; Water Pollution; Noise; Hazardous Waste; Solid Waste; Recycling
Q56 Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth
Q58 Environmental Economics: Government Policy
D63 Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
H23 Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
Q52 Pollution Control Adoption and Costs; Distributional Effects; Employment Effects
Q53 Air Pollution; Water Pollution; Noise; Hazardous Waste; Solid Waste; Recycling
Q56 Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth
Q58 Environmental Economics: Government Policy
Geographic Coverage:
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United States,
Texas,
California
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