Graduation Year
2020
Document Type
Campus Only Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Economics
Reader 1
Nicholas Kacher
Reader 2
Patrick Van Horn
Rights Information
© 2020 Sabrina K Chung
Abstract
This paper examines the impact of technology growth and the dot com boom on total energy consumption throughout the United States. It specifically focuses on the period 1990-2017 measuring increases in the Information or technology sector employment and total energy consumption per capita over all fifty US states plus the District of Columbia. As global leaders search for solutions to decrease projected temperature rises and energy consumption, the impact of technology in the context of developmental and environmental economics has yet to be thoroughly examined. Modeled after the Environmental Kuznets Curve, this research found that in states with higher employment in the Information sector, there is a negative relationship with energy consumption per capita in said state.
Recommended Citation
Chung, Sabrina, "Impact of 90's Technology Boom on Energy Consumption by State" (2020). Scripps Senior Theses. 1445.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1445
This thesis is restricted to the Claremont Colleges current faculty, students, and staff.
