PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Aldy, Joseph E.
TI  - Divergence in State-Level Per Capita Carbon Dioxide Emissions
AID  - 10.3368/le.83.3.353
DP  - 2007 Aug 01
TA  - Land Economics
PG  - 353--369
VI  - 83
IP  - 3
4099  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/83/3/353.short
4100  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/83/3/353.full
SO  - Land Econ2007 Aug 01; 83
AB  - This paper addresses the question of whether income convergence is sufficient for per capita carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions convergence by focusing on a set of advanced economies, the U.S. states. I undertake a variety of cross-sectional and stochastic convergence tests with two novel measures of 1960 to 1999 state-level CO2 emissions per capita: production (pre-electricity trade) CO2 and consumption (post-electricity trade) CO2, and with income per capita. Although incomes continue to converge, I find stark divergence in production CO2 per capita and no evidence of convergence for consumption CO2 per capita. Forecasts of future distributions show little convergence in emissions. (JEL Q54, Q56)