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Indirect Employment and Income Distribution Impacts of Investment Programs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

Thomas H. Stevens
Affiliation:
The University of Massachusetts
Wawa Ngenge
Affiliation:
The University of Massachusetts, is currently enrolled in the Ph.D. program at Texas A&M
George McDowell
Affiliation:
The University of Massachusetts
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Private and public investment programs are often implemented without adequate knowledge of their employment or income distribution impacts. For example, although numerous studies have been done on the environmental and economic efficiency aspects of electricity generation alternatives, relatively little is known of who will benefit and by how much.

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Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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