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Challenges in measuring the distribution of carbon footprints: The role of product and price heterogeneity

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The distribution of the footprint within a country is regularly computed using consumption data, and with the assumption that the footprint from a product category is proportional to the spending on that product. Here, we explore the limitations of this proportionality assumption.