Intergenerational Discounting with Intragenerational Inequality in Consumption and the Environment

Environmental and Resource Economics

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2019, Pages 957-972

  Yamaguchi, Rintaro ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Climate change; Discounting; Income distribution; Intragenerational equity

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ELASTICITY;

DISCOUNTING; DISTRIBUTION EFFECT; ELASTICITY OF SUBSTITUTION; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; INTRA-GENERATIONAL EQUITY; MARGINAL UTILITY; POPULATION CHANGE; SOCIAL WELFARE FUNCTIONS;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

AMENITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; DISCOUNT RATE; EQUITY; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; NUMERICAL METHOD; SOCIAL WORK; WELFARE ECONOMICS;

EID: 85053032099     PISSN: 09246460     EISSN: 15731502     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10640-018-0282-4     Document Type: Article

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