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A Method of Estimating Social Benefits from Pollution Control

In: The Economics of Environment

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  • Karl-Göran Mäler

    (The Stockholm School of Economics)

Abstract

In an article in Water Resources Research 1966 [3], Joe B. Stevens tried to estimate direct recreational benefits from water pollution control by using market demand curves for a sport fishery. The quality of the fishery was represented by the angling success per unit of effort. Water pollution would cause a deterioration in the quality, i.e. would decrease angling success. By estimating a demand function for the sport fishery, both as a function of the price of using the fishery and as a function of the quality variable, Stevens thought he could calculate the recreational benefits or the willingness to pay for maintaining constant quality, from various areas under the demand curves.

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  • Karl-Göran Mäler, 1971. "A Method of Estimating Social Benefits from Pollution Control," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Peter Bohm & Allen V. Kneese (ed.), The Economics of Environment, pages 106-118, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-01379-1_8
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-01379-1_8
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    1. Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, 2007. "Budget Policy and Income Distribution," International Center for Public Policy Working Paper Series, at AYSPS, GSU paper0707, International Center for Public Policy, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University.
    2. Iris Claus & Jorge Martinez-Vazquez & VIoleta Vulovic, 2012. "Government Fiscal Policies and Redistribution in Asian Countries," International Center for Public Policy Working Paper Series, at AYSPS, GSU paper1213, International Center for Public Policy, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University.
    3. Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, 2001. "The Impact of Budgets on the Poor: Tax and Benefit," International Center for Public Policy Working Paper Series, at AYSPS, GSU paper0110, International Center for Public Policy, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University.
    4. David A. Starrett, 1997. "Mobility and Capitalization in Local Public Finance: A Reassessment," Working Papers 97006, Stanford University, Department of Economics.
    5. Neill, Jon R., 2022. "Using consumer’s surplus to bound willingness to pay for non-market goods," Resource and Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 67(C).

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