Is the Income Elasticity of the Willingness to Pay for Pollution Control Constant?

Environmental and Resource Economics

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 663-682

  Barbier, Edward B ^a   Czajkowski, Mikołaj ^b   Hanley, Nick ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Baltic Sea; Benefits transfer; Environmental Kuznets curve; Eutrophication; Income elasticity of willingness to pay; Non market valuation

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; ELASTICITY; EUTROPHICATION; POLLUTION; POLLUTION INDUCED CORROSION; RESOURCE VALUATION;

BALTIC SEA; BENEFITS TRANSFER; ENVIRONMENTAL KUZNETS CURVES; NON-MARKET VALUATION; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

POLLUTION CONTROL;

CONTINGENT VALUATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; EUTROPHICATION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; KUZNETS CURVE; POLLUTION CONTROL; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

EID: 84974801087     PISSN: 09246460     EISSN: 15731502     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10640-016-0040-4     Document Type: Article

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