01216nam a22001457a 4500 521201 521201 221226b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Levinson, Arik and Silva,Emilson 36413 The electric Gini: Income redistribution through energy prices American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 14(2), May, 2022: p.341-365 In theory, regulators concerned about inequality will deviate from efficient two-part tariffs, charging lower-than-efficient fixed monthly fees and higher-than-efficient per-kilowatt-hour prices. To quantify that relationship, we develop a measure of the redistributive extent of utility tariffs: the "electric Gini." Utilities with higher electric Ginis shift more costs from households using relatively little electricity to households using more. In practice, US utilities whose ratepayers have more unequal incomes have higher electric Ginis. But electricity demand is only loosely correlated with income, which means that electricity prices are an indirect and ineffective policy for countering income inequality. – Reproduced American Economic Journal: Economic Policy INCOME DISTRIBUTION AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 395253 IIPA IIPA 2022-12-26 14(2), May, 2022: p.341-365 AR127749 2022-12-26 AR