Evaluating "Cash-for-Clunkers": Program effects on auto sales and the environment

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 175-193

  Li, Shanjun ^a   Linn, Joshua ^b   Spiller, Elisheba ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Auto demand; Cash for Clunkers; Stimulus

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; FUEL ECONOMY;

AUTO DEMAND; CASH-FOR-CLUNKERS; CO2 EMISSIONS; CONTROL GROUPS; DIFFERENCE-IN-DIFFERENCES; STIMULUS; U.S. ECONOMIES; UPPER AND LOWER BOUNDS;

SALES;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; EMISSION INVENTORY; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

CANADA;

EID: 84875246682     PISSN: 00950696     EISSN: 10960449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeem.2012.07.004     Document Type: Article

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