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100			_aLevinson, Arik and Silva,Emilson _936413
245			_aThe electric Gini: Income redistribution through energy prices
260			_aAmerican Economic Journal: Economic Policy
300			_a14(2), May, 2022: p.341-365
520			_aIn 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
773			_aAmerican Economic Journal: Economic Policy
906			_aINCOME DISTRIBUTION
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