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.
