Environmental Goods and the Distribution of Income

Udo Ebert

Environmental & Resource Economics, 2003, vol. 25, issue 4, 435-459

Abstract: The paper presents a (theoretical) investigation of the distributional impacts of environmental commodities. It introduces an appropriate framework, defines concepts for measuring benefits and examines the determinants of benefit incidence within this setup. Its emphasis is on methodology and on recognizing the relevant economic variables and information. It turns out that in an “equal-preference” model the magnitude of the income elasticity of marginal willingness to pay for an environmental good is the crucial variable determining progressivity. It is related to a number of other elasticities which are more easily accessible to an empirical estimation. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 2003

Keywords: determinants of benefit incidence; income distribution; nonmarket goods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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