Document Type
Article
Abstract
Objective
We examine the relationship between clean energy policies and green job growth.
Methods
Using a set of meta-regression analyses, we assess the green job creation performance of a wide variety of policies in the American states.
Results
Our findings indicate that renewable portfolio standards and public benefit funds are systematically associated with increases in green jobs, although the effects of other policy tools are ambiguous at best. Effect estimates in the existing literature are significantly driven by how the dependent and core independent variables are measured.
Conclusion
Overall, our findings suggest that some policies may be an effective component of an energy-based economic development strategy, but that for others a more robust evidence base is needed in order to clarify their effects.
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Publication Info
Published in Social Science Quarterly, Volume 104, Issue 2, 2022.
Rights
© 2022 The Authors. Social Science Quarterly published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Southwestern Social Science Association.
This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
APA Citation
Woods, N. D., Kang, J., & Lowder, M. A. (2022). Do green policies produce green jobs? Social Science Quarterly, 104(2), 153–167. https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.13233