The Economics of Inequality and the Environment
Journal of Economic Literature, 2025.Moritz A. Drupp, Ulrike Kornek, Jasper N. Meya, and Lutz Sager
Readings and Publications
General
Moritz A. Drupp, Ulrike Kornek, Jasper N. Meya, and Lutz Sager
Environmental and Natural Resource Economics and Systemic Racism
Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2023.Amy Ando, Titus Awokuse, Nathan Chan, Jimena-González-Ramírez, Sumeet Gulati, Matthew Interis, Sarah Jacobson, Dale Manning, and Samuel Stolper
Benefit/Cost Analysis
The Use of Distributional Weights in Benefit–Cost Analysis: Insights from Welfare Economics
Review of Environmnental Economics and Policy, 2016.Marc Fleurbaey and Rossi Abi-Rafeh
Climate Change
Inequality Aversion for Climate Policy
Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2024.Stellio Del Campo, David Anthoff, and Ulrike Kornek
Economists and the climate
Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2024.Thomas Sterner, Jens Ewald, and Erik Sterner
Efficiency and/or Markets
Alternatives to the scarcity principle
The Journal of Economic Education, 2022.William Darity
The Tragedy of the Tragedy of the Commons
Scientific American, 2019.Matto Mildenberger; edited by Michael D. Lemonick
The Equity-Efficiency Trade-off in Environmental Policy: Evidence from Stated Preferences
Land Economics, 2010.Simon Dietz and Giles Atkinson
Energy
Climate Change and Energy Insecurity: A Growing Need for Policy Intervention
Environmental Justice, 2024.Michelle Graff, David M. Konisky, Sanya Carley, and Trevor Memmott
Who Will Pay for Legacy Utility Costs?
Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2022.Lucas W. Davis and Catherine Hausman
Targeting energy justice: Exploring spatial, racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in urban residential heating energy efficiency
Energy Policy, 2016.Tony Gerard Reames
Environmental Justice
Environmental justice beyond race: Skin tone and exposure to air pollution
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2025.Sandra Aguilar-Gomez, Juan Camilo Cardenas, and Ricardo Salas Diaz
Recent Findings and Methodologies in Economics Research in Environmental Justice
Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2024.Lucas Cain, Danae Hernandez-Cortes, Christopher Timmins, and Paige Weber
Environmental Justice: The Economics of Race, Place, and Pollution
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2019.Spencer Banzhaf, Lala Ma, and Christopher Timmins
Growth and/or Development
Income, inequality, and pollution: a reassessment of the environmental Kuznets Curve
Ecological Economics, 1998.Mariano Torras and James K. Boyce
Market Failure
Market Solutions
California’s GHG Cap-and-Trade Program and the Equity of Air Toxic Releases
Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2024.Glenn Sheriff
Do environmental markets cause environmental injustice? Evidence from California’s carbon market
Journal of Public Economics, 2023.Danae Hernandez-Cortes and Kyle C. Meng
Who Wins from Emissions Trading? Evidence from California
Environmental and Resource Economics , 2017.Corbett Grainger and Thanicha Ruangmas
The ethics of carbon offsetting
WIREs Climate Change , 2013.Keith Hyams and Tina Fawcett
What Do Emissions Markets Deliver and to Whom? Evidence from Southern California’s NOx Trading Program
American Economic Review, 2012.Meredith Fowlie, Stephen P. Holland, and Erin T. Mansur
Natural Resources
Retrospectives: Tragedy of the Commons after 50 Years
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2019.Brett M. Frischmann, Alain Marciano, and Giovanni Battista Ramello
Institutions and the Environment
Economic Affairs, 2008.Elinor Ostrom
Non-market Solutions
Community-Engaged Economics Research for the Clean Energy Transition
Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2025.Elisheba Spiller, Danae Hernandez-Cortes, Neha Khanna, and Mehri Mohebbi
Valuation
Equity and Cost-Effectiveness in Valuation and Action Planning to Preserve Biodiversity
Environmental and Resource Economics , 2024.Amy Ando
Water
Community–academic partnerships helped Flint through its water crisis
Nature, 2021.E. Yvonne Lewis and Richard Sadler