This paper provides a simple analytic approach for measuring the burden of carbon pricing that does not require sophisticated and numerically intensive economic models but which is not limited to restrictive assumptions of forward shifting of carbon prices. We also show how to adjust for the...

One critical economic question surrounding cap-and-trade is how to distribute the permits.

This paper measures the incidence of a carbon tax on gasoline using current income and two measures of lifetime income to rank households.

Carbon taxes are more regressive when annual income is used as a measure of economic welfare than when proxies for lifetime income are used.

This paper provides a simple analytic approach for measuring the burden of carbon pricing and shows how to adjust for the capital income bias contained in the Consumer Expenditure Survey.

This paper provides a simple analytic approach for measuring the burden of carbon pricing that does not require sophisticated and numerically intensive economic models but which is not limited to restrictive assumptions of forward shifting of carbon prices. We also show how to adjust for the...