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Egg-Timer: Transport and Environmental Policy Location: D-107 Session Chair: Moon Joon Kim, George Mason University Korea | |
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The Novel Vehicle Tax on Fine Particulate Matter Emissions University of Mannheim, Germany Old diesel cars without modern emissions control technology substantially contribute to air pollution by emitting high amounts of fine particulate matter, which is known to be detrimental to human health. Periodic vehicle registration fees offer a potentially powerful lever to speed up the retirement of old and polluting vehicles, yet little empirical evidence exists on the matter. This paper analyzes how higher registration fees on old and polluting diesel vehicles in the Netherlands accelerate their outflow from the vehicle fleet. It leverages the staggered rollout of diesel particulate filters as factory-fitted equipment to create quasi-random variation in pollution levels across otherwise comparable diesel car models. By applying Synthetic Difference-in-Differences complemented with a hazard model, this paper establishes that the tax increase on old and polluting cars is effective at reducing their numbers, albeit at the cost of being a very regressive policy. | |