% WARNING: This file may contain UTF-8 (unicode) characters. % While non-8-bit characters are officially unsupported in BibTeX, you % can use them with the biber backend of biblatex % usepackage[backend=biber]{biblatex} @techreport{NBERw16768, title = "Does the Indexing of Government Transfers Make Carbon Pricing Progressive?", author = "Fullerton, Don and Heutel, Garth and Metcalf, Gilbert E", institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research", type = "Working Paper", series = "Working Paper Series", number = "16768", year = "2011", month = "February", doi = {10.3386/w16768}, URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w16768", abstract = {We analyze both the uses side and the sources side incidence of domestic climate policy using an analytical general equilibrium model, taking into account the degree of government program indexing. When transfer programs such as Social Security are explicitly indexed to inflation, higher energy prices automatically lead to cost-of-living adjustments for recipients. We show results with no indexing, 100 percent indexing, and partial indexing based on our analysis of actual transfer programs. When households are classified by annual income, the indexing of U.S. transfers is not enough to offset the regressive uses side, but when they are classified by annual expenditures as a proxy for permanent income, transfer indexing does offset regressivity across the lowest income groups.}, }