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Call for Papers: The economics of inequality and the environment

The Forum for Research on Eastern Europe: Climate and Environment (FREECE) and the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) invite paper submissions from economics, political science, and related fields for a one-day workshop at the Stockholm School of Economics on Friday, November 28, 2025.

Workshop

Environmental policy and inequality are closely intertwined: inequality shapes how environmental damages and benefits are valued and who supports which policies; in turn, environmental degradation, and the policies addressing it, have important distributional consequences. The workshop welcomes theoretical, empirical, and policy-oriented papers that advance our understanding of these links.

Focus areas include:

  • Distributional effects of environmental policies (taxes, ETS, standards), including revenue recycling/compensation
  • Environmental justice and inequality (income, gender, ethnicity): unequal exposure to pollution and climate risks
  • Political economy of inequality and the environment: how inequality shapes policy appraisal, support, and adoption
  • The green transition’s winners and losers: labour-market and regional impacts of decarbonization

Submissions on all settings are welcome; studies focused on Eastern Europe are especially encouraged.

Important dates & submission deadline

  • October 15, 2025 - Submission deadline (full papers or extended abstracts)
  • November 28, 2025 - FREECE Workshop sesssion on ‘The Economics of Inequality and the Environment' at the Stockholm School of Economics

Please send your submission to: julius.andersson@hhs.se

About FREECE

In 2021 the FREE Network initiated the Forum for Research on Eastern Europe: Climate and Environment (FREECE). The long-run goal of FREECE is to provide guidance for policymakers in the region on how to promote economic development that is environmentally sustainable.

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