Beyond Regulatory Boundaries: Building-Sector CO₂ Responses to Carbon-Pricing Adoption across 190 Economies

Description

This dataset provides the replication materials for the study “Beyond Regulatory Boundaries: Building-Sector CO₂ Responses to Carbon-Pricing Adoption across 190 Economies.” The study examines whether building-sector CO₂ emissions respond following the adoption of emissions trading systems (ETSs) and carbon taxes across 190 economies over the period 1990–2024. The replication package includes the analysis dataset and Stata code used to generate the empirical results reported in the manuscript, including the baseline staggered difference-in-differences estimations, nonlinear development specifications, joint ETS and carbon-tax models, placebo tests, development-stage heterogeneity analysis, and dynamic group-time average treatment effects (ATTGTs). The dataset contains building-sector CO₂ emissions, carbon-pricing adoption indicators, and the socioeconomic and energy-related variables used in the empirical analysis. Carbon-pricing policy information is compiled from the World Bank’s State and Trends of Carbon Pricing reports, while socioeconomic, energy, and emissions variables are drawn from publicly available World Bank sources. The variables and empirical specifications are documented in the accompanying manuscript and replication files. These materials are provided to facilitate transparency, reproducibility, and further research on carbon pricing, building-sector decarbonization, and cross-boundary climate-policy responses.

Steps to reproduce

The empirical results can be reproduced using the Stata code included in this repository. Users should first download the complete replication package and keep the data and code files in the same working directory, or update the working-directory path in the Stata do-files accordingly. Run the do-files in the order indicated by their filenames or as specified in the accompanying README file. The scripts reproduce the main empirical analyses reported in the manuscript, including baseline staggered difference-in-differences estimates, nonlinear development specifications, joint ETS and carbon-tax models, placebo tests, development-stage heterogeneity analysis, and dynamic group-time average treatment effects. The analysis was conducted in Stata. User-written packages required by individual scripts should be installed before execution where necessary. File paths may need to be adjusted to the user’s local directory structure.

Institutions

• Macau Millennium College

  Macau, Macao

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