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Gender and climate change: do men emit more GHG than women?

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  • Antonin Pottier

    (EHESS)

  • Emmanuel Combet

    (ADEME)

  • Simona de Lauretis

    (EDF Ð CIRED)

Abstract

This paper discusses the differential contributions of men and women to consumption- based emissions. The effect of gender on GHG emissions is difficult to assess because it correlates with other determinants, such as income and the size and composition of household that people are part of. We review the scant evidence available in the literature, with equivocal results. Using consumption-based emissions of French households, we show that pooling households of different size and composition cannot provide reliable estimates of the effect of gender of the head of household on emissions. Our empirical strategy therefore focuses on one-person households. With multi-variate regressions, we find that, other things being equal, there is no significant difference between single men and women, provided they are younger than 80. Women over 80 years old emit less than their male counterparts, a difference which can be traced back to their very low usage of car.

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  • Antonin Pottier & Emmanuel Combet & Simona de Lauretis, 2025. "Gender and climate change: do men emit more GHG than women?," Working Papers 2025.09, FAERE - French Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.
    • Handle: RePEc:fae:wpaper:2025.09
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    JEL classification:

    • D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
    • D14 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Saving; Personal Finance
    • D30 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - General
    • D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
    • Q56 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth
    • R20 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis - - - General

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