Policy Impact on Citizen Well-Being
A city government is considering a policy that would impose a $100 annual fee on every household to fund an environmental cleanup project. This project would uniformly increase the environmental quality for all residents. The citizens' well-being is determined by their income and environmental quality, with two key characteristics: (1) the satisfaction gained from an extra dollar of income is lower for high-income individuals than for low-income individuals, and (2) the satisfaction gained from any improvement in environmental quality is the same for everyone. Analyze how the net change in well-being (the positive effect of the cleanup minus the negative effect of the fee) would compare between a high-income household and a low-income household. Justify your conclusion.
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