Carbon pricing with regressive co-benefits: evidence from British Columbia’s carbon tax
Working paper by Lorenzo Sileci on 6 Dec 2023
The carbon tax introduced in British Columbia, Canada in 2018 is found to have had positive impacts on air quality. However the health co-benefits have been greatest in less polluted, less densely-populated and better-off neighbourhoods – highlighting that a carbon tax can exacerbate existing variations in pollution and health, where poorer areas are worse affected.