Quantifying the Distribution of Environmental Outcomes for Regulatory Environmental Justice Analysis

Kelly Maguire () and Glenn Sheriff

No 201102, NCEE Working Paper Series from National Center for Environmental Economics, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Abstract: Economists have long been interested in measuring distributional impacts of policy interventions. As environmental justice (EJ) emerged as an ethical issue in the 1970s, the academic literature has provided statistical analyses of the incidence and causes of various environmental outcomes as they relate to race, income and other demographic variables. In the context of regulatory impacts, however, there is a lack of consensus regarding what information is relevant for EJ analysis, and how best to present it. This paper helps frame the discussion by suggesting a set of questions fundamental to regulatory EJ analysis, reviewing past approaches to quantifying distributional equity, and discussing the potential for adapting existing tools to the regulatory context.

Keywords: environmental justice; regulatory impact analysis; distributional analysis; equity; inequality indes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C43 D63 Q52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38 pages
Date: 2011-04, Revised 2011-04
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