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Population under a cap on Greenhouse Gas Emissions

A cap on greenhouse gas emissions makes total emissions a fixed common-property resource. Population increases under a cap are therefore self-limiting: a population increase raises labor and reduces emissions per unit of labor, which lowers incomes and fertility. Because a marginal birth under a cap lowers all incomes, a cap induces a negative population externality. The externality is substantial in calibrations, about 20 percent of income in steady state and 5 percent of income immediately after imposition, or more, per child. Similarly, the optimal population may be one-quarter of the natural population in steady state.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 3046

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Taxation and Subsidies: Efficiency; Optimal Taxation
Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity: General
Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth
Thema
population externality
Pigovian tax
emissions cap
endogenous fertility
economic growth
optimal population
calibrated optimal child tax
Klimaschutz
Internalisierung externer Effekte
Treibhausgas
Umweltauflage
Bevölkerungsökonomie
Fruchtbarkeit
Internalisierung externer Effekte
Steady-State-Wachstum
Theorie

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Bohn, Henning
Stuart, Charles
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2010

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:46 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Bohn, Henning
  • Stuart, Charles
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Entstanden

  • 2010

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