Agricultural Economics, Department of
Department of Agricultural Economics: Presentations, Working Papers, and Gray Literature
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Date of this Version
July 1997
Abstract
The relative ability of rural communities to pay for sewer and water systems was analyzed. It was found that median household income, as currently used for many grant programs, is a poor measure of relative need. An alternative approach using measures of wealth and income distribution was developed.
Comments
A Selected paper submitted for the annual meeting of the Western American Agricultural Economics Association, Reno, Nevada, July 13-16, 1997.