损害赔偿
外部性
经济
大都市区
税收
收入
人均
汽油
衡平法
燃油税
自然资源经济学
公共经济学
微观经济学
财务
医学
人口
物理
人口学
病理
社会学
政治学
法学
热力学
出处
期刊:Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
日期:2022-05-01
卷期号:9 (3): 495-529
被引量:2
摘要
The demand for automobile transportation and the external costs of driving vary widely across locations. However, gasoline taxes, the most common policy tools implemented to correct these externalities, are levied uniformly at the federal and state levels. I examine how a gasoline tax that reflects the heterogeneity in demand and damages can improve efficiency. I estimate county-level travel demand elasticities and congestion damages to compare the efficiency of state gasoline taxes to county-specific fuel taxes. Because elasticities, congestion damages, and pollution damages exhibit heterogeneity across regions, county-specific fuel taxes, largely levied in major metropolitan areas, provide consumer welfare gains between $5 and $30 per capita annually in addition to equity gains relative to revenue-neutral state fuel taxes.
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