- Title Pages
- A National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report
- National Bureau of Economic Research
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction and Summary
- 1 Distributional Impacts in a Comprehensive Climate Policy Package
- 2 Climate Policy and Labor Markets
- 3 Limiting Emissions and Trade
- 4. Regulatory Choice with Pollution and Innovation
- 5. Spillovers from Climate Policy to Other Pollutants
- 6 Markets for Anthropogenic Carbon within the Larger Carbon Cycle
- 7 Interactions between State and Federal Climate Change Policies
- 8 Belts and Suspenders
- 9 Climate Policy and Voluntary Initiatives
- 10 Updating the Allocation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Permits in a Federal Cap-and-Trade Program
- 11 Upstream versus Downstream Implementation of Climate Policy
- 12 The Economics of Carbon Offsets
- 13 Monitoring and Enforcement of Climate Policy
- 14 How Can Policy Encourage Economically Sensible Climate Adaptation?
- 15 Setting the Initial Time-Profile of Climate Policy
- 16 Urban Policy Effects on Carbon Mitigation
- 17 Is Agricultural Production Becoming More or Less Sensitive to Extreme Heat?
- 18 Carbon Prices and Automobile Greenhouse Gas Emissions The Extensive and Intensive Margins
- 19 Evaluating the Slow Adoption of Energy Efficient Investments
- Contributors
- Author Index
- Subject Index
Urban Policy Effects on Carbon Mitigation
Urban Policy Effects on Carbon Mitigation
- Chapter:
- (p.259) 16 Urban Policy Effects on Carbon Mitigation
- Source:
- The Design and Implementation of US Climate Policy
- Author(s):
Matthew E. Kahn
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
This chapter considers the implications of urban policies on carbon mitigation, using different data sets to evaluate whether urban residents drive less and use public transportation more than people living in the suburbs. Using the 2005 Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS), it also examines the differences in residential energy consumption between urban and suburban households, and compares how energy consumption varies across the nation.
Keywords: urban policies, carbon mitigation, urban residents, public transportation, suburbs, RECS, residential energy, energy consumption, suburban households
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- Title Pages
- A National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report
- National Bureau of Economic Research
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction and Summary
- 1 Distributional Impacts in a Comprehensive Climate Policy Package
- 2 Climate Policy and Labor Markets
- 3 Limiting Emissions and Trade
- 4. Regulatory Choice with Pollution and Innovation
- 5. Spillovers from Climate Policy to Other Pollutants
- 6 Markets for Anthropogenic Carbon within the Larger Carbon Cycle
- 7 Interactions between State and Federal Climate Change Policies
- 8 Belts and Suspenders
- 9 Climate Policy and Voluntary Initiatives
- 10 Updating the Allocation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Permits in a Federal Cap-and-Trade Program
- 11 Upstream versus Downstream Implementation of Climate Policy
- 12 The Economics of Carbon Offsets
- 13 Monitoring and Enforcement of Climate Policy
- 14 How Can Policy Encourage Economically Sensible Climate Adaptation?
- 15 Setting the Initial Time-Profile of Climate Policy
- 16 Urban Policy Effects on Carbon Mitigation
- 17 Is Agricultural Production Becoming More or Less Sensitive to Extreme Heat?
- 18 Carbon Prices and Automobile Greenhouse Gas Emissions The Extensive and Intensive Margins
- 19 Evaluating the Slow Adoption of Energy Efficient Investments
- Contributors
- Author Index
- Subject Index