Population aging and carbon emissions in OECD countries: Accounting for life-cycle and cohort effects

Energy Economics

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 842-849

  Menz, Tobias ^a   Welsch, Heinz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carbon emissions; Climate change; Demographic transition; Environmental Kuznets curve; Population aging

Indexed keywords

CARBON EMISSIONS; CONSUMPTION PATTERNS; DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION; EMISSION FUNCTIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL KUZNETS CURVES; ESTIMATION RESULTS; OECD COUNTRIES; POPULATION AGING;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; POPULATION STATISTICS;

LIFE CYCLE;

AGING POPULATION; CARBON EMISSION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; MACROECONOMICS; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; OECD; PANEL DATA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84859727678     PISSN: 01409883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2011.07.016     Document Type: Article

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