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A Framework for Measuring the Economic Impact of Alternative Pollution Control Policies: An Application to the Egg Producing Industry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

P. Geoffrey Allen
P. Geoffrey Allen*
Affiliation:
Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Massachusetts
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Present Federal legislation imposes stringent water quality standards on point source emissions from agricultural operations. In the future, individual states may propose policies which are even more restrictive. A number of studies have examined the normative responses to antipollution regulations at the individual farm level (e.g. Ashraf and Christensen for the Massachusetts dairy industry; Gaede for the Massachusetts egg industry). These studies assumed that individual benchmark farms would achieve compliance with pollution standards by adopting the least cost alternative disposal method. They permitted as activities in a linear programming framework only those waste disposal practices considered capable of meeting regulations.

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Resource and Environmental Economics
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Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , October 1975 , pp. 211 - 224
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Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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Footnotes

Paper 1050, Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. This research was supported from Experiment Station project number 335. Cleve Willis made helpful comments on an earlier draft of this paper.

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