The Role of People versus Places in Individual Carbon Emissions

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Lyubich, Eva
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0002-8282
• DOI: 10.1257/aer.20230346
• 发表日期: 2025
• 页码: 1439-1484
• 关键词: local economic-development; HIGH WAGE WORKERS; Energy use; urban; Heterogeneity; elasticity; POLICY

摘要

There is substantial spatial heterogeneity in household carbon emissions. I leverage movers in two decades of administrative Decennial Census and American Community Survey data to estimate place effects-the amount by which carbon emissions change for the same household living in different places-for almost 1,000 cities and roughly 61,500 neighborhoods across the United States. I estimate that place effects account for 14-23 percent of overall heterogeneity. A change in neighborhood-level place effects from 1 standard deviation above the mean to 1 below would reduce household carbon emissions from residential energy and commuting by about 40 percent. (JEL D12, D15, L94, Q41, Q54, R11, R23)