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191286
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Are policies designed to avert climate change (Climate Change Policies, or CCPs) politically costly? Using data on governmental popular support and the OECD's Environmental Stringency Index covering 30 countries between 2001 and 2015, our results show that CCPs are not necessarily politically costly: policy design matters. First, in contrast to non-market-based CCPs (such as emission limits), only market-based CCPs (such as emission taxes) entail political costs for the government. Second, the effects are only present when CCPs are adopted during periods of high oil prices, prior to elections, or in countries depending strongly on non-green (dirty) energy sources. Third, CCPs are only politically costly when inequality is high and/or social insurance/transfer does not sufficiently address the regressivity of CCPs. Our results are robust to numerous robustness checks including to address concerns related to endogeneity issues.
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133157
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2014.
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This year, we commemorate the centenary of the outbreak of World War I, the so-called "war to end all wars." In reality, 1914 saw the beginning of a three-decade-long global nadir that encompassed two brutal world conflicts, a devastating influenza pandemic, and a worldwide depression. One hundred years later, the average person is about eight times richer than a century ago, living standards have soared, and average life expectancy has risen by over twenty years. The threat of war between great powers has declined, and our genetic code and universe have been unlocked in previously inconceivable ways. Many of today's goods are unimaginable without collective contributions from different parts of the world, a world through which more of us can move freely, provided we have the documents and means to do so. Our world is functionally smaller, and its possibilities are bigger and brighter than ever before.
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