| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w21437 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 21437 |
| The Distributional Effects of U.S. Clean Energy Tax Credits | |
| Severin Borenstein; Lucas W. Davis | |
| 发表日期 | 2015-08-10 |
| 出版年 | 2015 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Since 2006, U.S. households have received more than $18 billion in federal income tax credits for weatherizing their homes, installing solar panels, buying hybrid and electric vehicles, and other "clean energy" investments. We use tax return data to examine the socioeconomic characteristics of program recipients. We find that these tax expenditures have gone predominantly to higher-income Americans. The bottom three income quintiles have received about 10% of all credits, while the top quintile has received about 60%. The most extreme is the program aimed at electric vehicles, where we find that the top income quintile has received about 90% of all credits. By comparing to previous work on the distributional consequences of pricing greenhouse gas emissions, we conclude that tax credits are likely to be much less attractive on distributional grounds than market mechanisms to reduce GHGs. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics ; Market Structure and Distribution ; Public Economics ; Taxation ; National Fiscal Issues ; Environmental and Resource Economics ; Energy |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w21437 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
| 引用统计 | |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/579112 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Severin Borenstein,Lucas W. Davis. The Distributional Effects of U.S. Clean Energy Tax Credits. 2015. |
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