Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/90461 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 92
Publisher: 
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Courant Research Centre - Poverty, Equity and Growth (CRC-PEG), Göttingen
Abstract: 
We document a U-shaped relationship between income inequality and carbon dioxide emissions per capita, using a newly available panel data set on income inequality (GINI) with observations for 138 countries over the period 1960–2008. Our findings suggest that, for high-income countries with high income inequality, pro-poor growth and reduced per capita emissions levels go hand in hand.
Subjects: 
environmental quality
income inequality
panel data
JEL: 
I3
O1
Q3
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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