caa a22 4500 378936220 CHVBK 20180305123641.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20040217xx s 000 0 eng 10.2202/1538-0645.1254 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.2202/1538-0645.1254 Willingness to Pay for Environmental Quality: Testable Empirical Implications of the Growth and Environment Literature [Elektronische Daten] [Debra Israel, Arik Levinson] Several different theoretical models of economic growth and environmental quality each generate inverse-U-shaped pollution-income paths, or "environmental Kuznets curves." They rely on different assumptions to generate the reversal of pollution trends, with correspondingly different policy implications. While the empirical implications for pollution are indistinguishable (by design), the models have distinct implications for the pattern of people's marginal willingness to pay (MWTP) for environmental improvements as a function of income. In this paper we demonstrate those different implications theoretically, and test for them empirically using data from the World Value Survey (WVS). We find strong relationships between MWTP and individual characteristics, such as age, income, and education, but little evidence that MWTP varies systematically with economic growth. ©2011 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston World Values Survey nationallicence environmental Kuznets curve nationallicence environmental preferences nationallicence Israel Debra Indiana State University, ecisrael@isugw.indstate.edu aut Levinson Arik Georgetown, aml6@georgetown.edu aut Contributions in Economic Analysis & Policy De Gruyter 3/1(2004-02-17) 3:1 2004 3 bejeap https://doi.org/10.2202/1538-0645.1254 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2202/1538-0645.1254 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Israel Debra Indiana State University, ecisrael@isugw.indstate.edu aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Levinson Arik Georgetown, aml6@georgetown.edu aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Contributions in Economic Analysis & Policy De Gruyter 3/1(2004-02-17) 3:1 2004 3 bejeap CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter