Environmental Economics

Well, when I first posted that they weren’t supporting mode level estimates. They do now. They still don’t have directed effort code worked out. While they don’t support that in their web queries, it is a product in use by the councils and one they haven’t addressed.

Thanks for the response, Prof. I am trying to show that equity is a factor in efficiency, hence my continual cry to mitigate impacts to poor people.
When poor peoples’ more valuable dollars are lost to something that makes their dollars less valuable, efficiency is lost. Progressive tax policies aren’t right simply because they are more equitable; they are also right because they tend to be more efficient (both in the use of less-valuable dollars and in the ability to collect).
Now, if you are mitigating impacts through redistribution, I’ll support it, in part because it is more equitable, and in part because it is more efficient. Sadly, those components don’t tend to make the cut.

Prof., thanks for the response. Please, however, read mine: Nowhere did I say that equity and efficiency were “one and the same.” To imply that I said that actually looks a tad cheap.
What I said was that equity is a factor in efficiency. If I could show you a Venn diagram, they would be two big, distinct circles that overlap a bit.