The Consumer Burden of a Carbon Tax on Gasoline
The Consumer Burden of a Carbon Tax on Gasoline
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汽油碳税的消费者负担
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2009
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G. Metcalf
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作者：
K. Hassett;Aparna Mathur;G. Metcalf
本文使用当前收入和终身收入的两种衡量标准来衡量汽油碳税的发生率，对家庭进行排名。我们的研究结果表明，当使用年收入作为经济福利衡量标准时，汽油碳税比使用终生收入衡量标准时更具累退性。此外，我们发现，汽油税负担的地区差异可能不大，变化幅度不到半个百分点，在我们的分析中，波动很小。当我们考虑当前州汽油税的影响时，无论是跨收入十分位还是跨地区，这些结果都会得到体现。
This paper measures the incidence of a carbon tax on gasoline using current income and two measures of lifetime income to rank households. Our results suggest that carbon taxes on gasoline are more regressive when annual income is used as a measure of economic welfare than when lifetime income measures are used. In addition we find that the regional variation in the gasoline tax burden is likely to be modest varying by less than one-half of a percentage point with little fluctuation over the years of our analysis. These results carry through when we consider the incidence of the current state gasoline taxes, both across income deciles as well as across regions.