2. Climate Policy and Labor Markets

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. National Bureau of Economic Research v
3. Relation of the Directors to the Work and Publications of the National Bureau of Economic Research vi
4. Contents vii
5. Acknowledgments xi
6. Introduction and Summary 1
7. I. Climate Policy in the Broader Context
8. 1. Distributional Impacts in a Comprehensive Climate Policy Package 21
9. 2. Climate Policy and Labor Markets 37
10. 3. Limiting Emissions and Trade: Some Basic Ideas 53
11. 4. Regulatory Choice with Pollution and Innovation 65
12. 5. Spillovers from Climate Policy to Other Pollutants 79
13. 6. Markets for Anthropogenic Carbon within the Larger Carbon Cycle 93
14. II. Interactions with Other Policies
15. 7. Interactions between State and Federal Climate Change Policies 109
16. 8. Belts and Suspenders: Interactions among Climate Policy Regulations 127
17. 9. Climate Policy and Voluntary Initiatives: An Evaluation of the Connecticut Clean Energy Communities Program 145
18. 10. Updating the Allocation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Permits in a Federal Cap- and- Trade Program 157
19. III. Design Features of Climate Policy
20. 11. Upstream versus Downstream Implementation of Climate Policy 179
21. 12. The Economics of Carbon Offsets 197
22. 13. Monitoring and Enforcement of Climate Policy 213
23. 14. How Can Policy Encourage Economically Sensible Climate Adaptation? 229
24. 15. Setting the Initial Time-Profile of Climate Policy: The Economics of Environmental Policy Phase- Ins 245
25. IV. Sector-Specific Issues
26. 16. Urban Policy Effects on Carbon Mitigation 259
27. 17. Is Agricultural Production Becoming More or Less Sensitive to Extreme Heat? Evidence from US Corn and Soybean Yields 271
28. 18. Carbon Prices and Automobile Greenhouse Gas Emissions: The Extensive and Intensive Margins 287
29. 19. Evaluating the Slow Adoption of Energy Efficient Investments: Are Renters Less Likely to Have Energy Efficient Appliances? 301
30. Contributors 319
31. Author Index 323
32. Subject Index 327