TY - JOUR
T1 - Distributional welfare impacts of public spending
T2 - The case of urban versus national parks
AU - Feinerman, Eli
AU - Fleischer, Aliza
AU - Simhon, Avi
PY - 2004/8
Y1 - 2004/8
N2 - This study examines the optimal allocation of funds between national and urban parks. Since travel costs to national parks are significantly higher than to urban parks, poor households tend to visit the latter more frequently, whereas rich households favor the former. Therefore, allocating public funds to improving the quality of national parks at the expense of urban parks disproportionately benefits high-income households. By developing a theoretical model and implementing it using Israeli data, findings indicate all households, except for the richest decile, prefer that the park authority divert a larger proportion of its budget from national to urban parks.
AB - This study examines the optimal allocation of funds between national and urban parks. Since travel costs to national parks are significantly higher than to urban parks, poor households tend to visit the latter more frequently, whereas rich households favor the former. Therefore, allocating public funds to improving the quality of national parks at the expense of urban parks disproportionately benefits high-income households. By developing a theoretical model and implementing it using Israeli data, findings indicate all households, except for the richest decile, prefer that the park authority divert a larger proportion of its budget from national to urban parks.
KW - Budget allocation
KW - Income distribution
KW - National parks
KW - Urban parks
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AN - SCOPUS:4544232362
SN - 1068-5502
VL - 29
SP - 370
EP - 386
JO - Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics
JF - Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics
IS - 2
ER -