Shadbegian, Ronald J.; Gray, Wayne B. - National Center for Environmental Economics (NCEE), … - 2003
pollution abatement expenditures, which allows us to distinguish between productive and abatement expenditures on each input. We … use annual Census Bureau information (1979-1990) on output, labor, capital, and material inputs, and pollution abatement … pollution abatement inputs generally contribute little or nothing to output, especially when compared to their ‘productive …