Essays on Inequality and the Environmen

关于不平等和环境的论文

• 批准号: 2743809
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Cambridge
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2743809
• 关键词: Essays; Inequality; Environmen

While it is well documented that climate change aggravates weather events and that natural resource depletion harms biodiversity, literature on the economic consequences of environmental impacts is still relatively sparse.Even fewer research has quantified how these effects differ across groups of people, despite plentiful indications that environmental vulnerability is strongly heterogeneous. In my proposed piece of research, I would like to fill this gap by investigating different dimensions of environmental inequality, namely inequality across income strata, regions, and generations (with potential extension to gender). I propose to adopt an applied microeconometric approach with spatial elements for the first chapter, which will focus onquantifying local environmental impacts on individuals' incomes at various quantiles of the distribution over the past decades. Direct effects on productivity and the local economy as well as indirect effects through migration will be quantified. The results will indicate to what extent environmental impacts and the resulting migratory flows affect income levels and inequality. A second chapter could shed light on intergenerational inequality through an intertemporal game setting, in which voters choose between 'environmental protection' and 'economic growth' at each point in time, taking into account the expected utility and uncertainty derived over the remainder of their lives. This chapter would rely mostly on theoretical microeconomic concepts with an applied section to test the findings. Giventhe above, the 'Empirical Microeconomics' research group would be the best fit for me methodologically, supported by Dr Mohaddes' expertise in environmental economics. I also hope to learn from scholars in the 'Microeconomic Theory' and 'Econometrics' research groups to ensure that my research is rigorous and robust across various fields in Economics.

虽然气候变化会加剧天气事件，自然资源枯竭会损害生物多样性，但关于环境影响的经济后果的文献仍然相对较少。甚至更少的研究量化了这些影响在不同人群中的差异，尽管有大量迹象表明环境脆弱性具有很强的异质性。在我提出的一项研究中，我想通过调查环境不平等的不同维度来填补这一空白，即收入阶层、地区和世代之间的不平等(可能会延伸到性别)。我建议在第一章采用带有空间要素的应用微观计量经济学方法，重点是量化过去几十年来不同分配分位数的当地环境对个人收入的影响。将量化移徙对生产力和当地经济的直接影响以及间接影响。结果将表明环境影响和由此产生的移民流动在多大程度上影响收入水平和不平等。第二章可以通过跨期博弈来揭示代际不平等，在这种博弈环境中，选民在每个时间点上在“环境保护”和“经济增长”之间做出选择，同时考虑到预期的效用和余生的不确定性。这一章将主要依靠理论上的微观经济学概念，并用一个应用部分来检验研究结果。综上所述，在莫哈德斯博士的环境经济学专业知识的支持下，“经验微观经济学”研究小组在方法论上最适合我。我也希望向“微观经济理论”和“计量经济学”研究小组的学者学习，以确保我的研究在经济学的各个领域都是严谨和稳健的。