Altruism in cost-benefit analysis

Per-Olov Johansson

Environmental & Resource Economics, 1992, vol. 2, issue 6, 605-613

Abstract: It has recently been argued that altruistic motives for paying for a public sector project should be ignored in a cost-benefit analysis. The reason is that including altruism would mean a kind of double counting of the project's benefits. This paper takes a look at these arguments, and derives cost-benefit rules which cover different kinds of altruism. The paper also provides some recommendations for the treatment of altruism in studies using the contingent valuation method. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1992

Keywords: Altruism; contingent valuation; cost-benefit analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1992
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