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James K. Boyce is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Economics, Econometrics, and Finance, with a substantial number of publications in subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Economics and Econometrics, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, and Development.

The main topics covered by Boyce's work include:

  • Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Economic and Environmental Valuation
  • Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
  • International Development and Aid

Boyce has published extensively, with a significant number of papers appearing in venues such as Scholarworks (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Global Challenges, The Energy Journal, Industrial and Corporate Change, and Ecological Economics.

Recent notable publications include:

  • Cap and Dividend: How to Curb Global Warming While Protecting the Incomes Of American Families, 2022, Scholarworks (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
  • Public Finance, Aid, and Post-Conflict Recovery, 2021, RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
  • Environmental Justice and Carbon Pricing: Can They Be Reconciled?, 2023, Global Challenges

Boyce's collaborative work features frequent co-authorship with several researchers including Michael Ash, Léonce Ndikumana, Matthew Riddle, Charlotte Bez, and Brent Ranalli.

This body of research engages with issues of environmental justice, economic policy, and social equity, addressing the intersection of economic and environmental outcomes at both national and global levels.

Best Publications

  • Income, inequality, and pollution: a reassessment of the environmental Kuznets Curve

    Mariano Torras;James K Boyce

  • Inequality as a Cause of Environmental Degradation

    James K. Boyce

  • Is Africa a Net Creditor? New Estimates of Capital Flight from Severely Indebted Sub-Saharan African Countries, 1970-96

    James K. Boyce;Léonce Ndikumana

  • Public Debts and Private Assets: Explaining Capital Flight from Sub-Saharan African Countries

    Léonce Ndikumana;James K. Boyce

  • Carbon Pricing: Effectiveness and Equity

    James K. Boyce

  • A Quiet Violence: View from a Bangladesh Village

    Betsy Hartmann;James K. Boyce

  • Agrarian Impasse in Bengal: Institutional Constraints to Technological Change.

    Sugata Bose;James K. Boyce

  • Power distribution, the environment, and public health: A state-level analysis

    James K. Boyce;Andrew R. Klemer;Paul H. Templet;Cleve E. Willis

  • Measuring environmental inequality

    James K. Boyce;Klara Zwickl;Michael Ash

  • New Estimates of Capital Flight from Sub-Saharan African Countries: Linkages with External Borrowing and Policy Options

    Léonce Ndikumana;James K. Boyce

  • Africa’s odious debts: How foreign loans and capital flight bled a continent

    Léonce Ndikumana;James K. Boyce

  • Capital flight from sub‐Saharan Africa: linkages with external borrowing and policy options

    Léonce Ndikumana;James K. Boyce

  • Is Africa a Net Creditor? New Estimates of Capital Flight from Severely Indebted Sub-Saharan African Countries, 1970-1996

    James K. Boyce;Leonce Ndikumana

  • The Political Economy of the Environment

    James K. Boyce

  • The revolving door? External debt and capital flight: A Philippine case study

    James K. Boyce

  • Congo's Odious Debt: External Borrowing and Capital Flight in Zaire

    Leonce Ndikumana;James K. Boyce

  • A Chinese sky trust?: Distributional impacts of carbon charges and revenue recycling in China

    Mark Brenner;Matthew Riddle;James K. Boyce

  • Regional variation in environmental inequality: Industrial air toxics exposure in U.S. cities

    Klara Zwickl;Michael Ash;James K. Boyce

  • Birth of a megaproject: political economy of flood control in Bangladesh

    James K. Boyce

  • Capital Flight from Sub-Saharan African Countries: Updated Estimates, 1970 - 2010

    James K Boyce;Léonce Ndikumana;Léonce Ndikumana;Léonce Ndikumana

  • A Quiet Violence: View from a Bangladesh Village.

    Akbar S. Ahmed;Betsy Hartmann;James Boyce

  • A future for small farms

    James K. Boyce

Frequent Co-Authors

Léonce Ndikumana
Léonce Ndikumana University of Massachusetts Amherst
Manuel Pastor
Manuel Pastor University of Southern California
Robert D. Bullard
Robert D. Bullard Texas Southern University
Rachel Morello-Frosch
Rachel Morello-Frosch University of California, Berkeley
Gerald Epstein
Gerald Epstein University of Massachusetts Amherst
Prasanta K. Pattanaik
Prasanta K. Pattanaik University of California, Riverside
Juliet B. Schor
Juliet B. Schor Boston College
Lixiao Zhang
Lixiao Zhang Beijing Normal University
Martin Ravallion
Martin Ravallion Georgetown University

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