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Feld, Immanuel and Fetzer, Thiemo (2024) Performative state capacity and climate (in) action. Working Paper. University of Warwick. Department of Economics: Coventry, UK. Warwick economics research papers series (WERPS), 1495 . (Unpublished)
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Abstract
Climate action requires significant public- and private sector investment to achieve meaningful reductions in carbon emissions. This paper documents that large-scale austerity, coupled with barriers to flows of data and a lack of (digital) skills in (local) government, may have been a significant barrier to delivering climate action in the form of retrofitting. Decomposing heterogeneity in estimated treatment effects of a large-scale energy efficiency savings program that was rolled out through a regression discontinuity design in the early 2010s, we find that both the extent of austerity-induced local budget cuts and poor digital connectivity – may be responsible for up to 30% fewer retrofit installations that counterfactually would have taken place had it not been for austerity
Item Type: | Working or Discussion Paper (Working Paper) | ||||||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HJ Public Finance |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Climatic changes -- Economic aspects, Climatic changes -- Government policy, Economic policy, Financial crises | ||||||||||||
Series Name: | Warwick economics research papers series (WERPS) | ||||||||||||
Publisher: | Coventry, UK | ||||||||||||
Place of Publication: | University of Warwick. Department of Economics | ||||||||||||
ISSN: | 0083-7350 | ||||||||||||
Official Date: | April 2024 | ||||||||||||
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Volume: | 1495 | ||||||||||||
Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||||||||||
Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||||
Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Free Access (unspecified licence, 'bronze OA') | ||||||||||||
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