Road transport imposes negative externalities on society. These externalities include
environmental and road damage, accidents, congestion, and oil dependence. The cost of …

Climate change is acknowledged as the largest threat to our societies in the coming
decades, potentially affecting large and diverse groups of urban residents in this century of …

How consumers evaluate trade-offs between the cost of buying additional fuel economy and
the expected fuel savings that result is an important underlying determinant of the overall …

This paper analyses the distributional effects of alternative scenarios of carbon taxes on car
fuels using disaggregated French panel data from 2003 to 2006. It incorporates household …

The prospect for electric vehicles as a climate change solution hinges on their ability to
reduce gasoline consumption. But this depends on how many miles electric vehicles are …

Empirical evidence shows that low-income households spend a high share of their income
on pollution-intensive goods. This fuels the concern that an environmental tax reform could …

This paper develops a new method for estimating a demand function and the welfare
consequences of price changes. The method is applied to gasoline demand in the United …

This paper examines how the general equilibrium incidence of an environmental tax
depends on the effect of different incomes and preferences of heterogeneous households …

Outcome-based equity relates to the consequences of a policy, action, or developmental
trend, which is acknowledged to be important for both low-and high-income countries …

This article surveys recent literature on the equity impacts of environmental policy. We focus
on studies that look at the distribution of costs and benefits of alternative environmental …