Income inequality and willingness to pay for environmental public goods

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Income inequality and willingness to pay for environmental public goods. / Baumgärtner, Stefan; Drupp, Moritz A.; Meya, Jasper N. et al.
In: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Vol. 85, 01.09.2017, p. 35-61.

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Baumgärtner S, Drupp MA, Meya JN, Munz JM, Quaas MF. Income inequality and willingness to pay for environmental public goods. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 2017 Sept 1;85:35-61. doi: 10.1016/j.jeem.2017.04.005

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title = "Income inequality and willingness to pay for environmental public goods",
abstract = "We study how the distribution of income among members of society, and income inequality in particular, affects social willingness to pay (WTP) for environmental public goods. We find that social WTP for environmental goods decreases (increases) with income inequality if and only if environmental goods and manufactured goods are substitutes (complements). We derive adjustment factors for benefit transfer to control for differences in income distributions between a study site and a policy site. For illustration, we quantify how social WTP for environmental public goods depends on the respective income distributions for empirical case studies in Sweden and the World at large. We find that the adjustment for income inequality can be substantial.",
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