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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
Pollution and the State: The Role of the Structure of Government
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| Autores: |
Lopez, Ramon E.
Galinato, Gregmar I.
Islam, Asif M.
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| Data: |
2009-03-06
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| Ano: |
2009
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| Resumo: |
Government spending has significant environmental implications. This paper analyzes the effect of the allocation of government spending between public goods broadly defined and private goods or non-social subsidies on air and water pollution. The theoretical model predicts that a reallocation of expenditures from private subsidies to public goods improves environmental quality by reducing production pollution. We estimate an empirical model that shows that such a reallocation causes a significant reduction in air pollutants namely sulfur dioxide and lead and an improvement in water quality measures including dissolved oxygen and biological oxygen demand.
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| Tipo: |
Conference Paper or Presentation
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
http://purl.umn.edu/48055
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| Relação: |
Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society>2009 Conference (53rd), February 11-13, 2009, Cairns, Australia
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| Formato: |
38
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