Concerns about the accuracy of benefit transfer approaches remain a barrier to using low-cost benefit estimation techniques for policy decisions, or even as a rapid-assessment tool used for simulations or communication. In this paper, we present and discuss the process of generating benefit...

I study how the distribution of environmental goods and income affect the economic valuation of local public goods. I find that how environmental inequality affects societal willingness to pay (WTP) for environmental local public goods is determined by their substitutability as well as by how...