Distributional Consequences and Regulatory Analysis

The article examines the requirements for the Biden administration to successfully integrate environmental justice into regulatory decision-making, contrasting this with previous efforts under the Clinton and Obama administrations. It posits that a lack of standardized methodologies for distributional analysis contributed to past failures and asserts that agencies must rigorously analyze the distributional consequences of different regulatory alternatives to determine when such benefits can outweigh higher net benefits of other options.

• The author argues that the failure of environmental justice efforts under the Clinton and Obama administrations was partly due to the absence of a standardized approach to distributional analysis, and that the Biden administration will need clear guidance on these methodologies to succeed.

APA

Yi, R. R. A. S. (2021). Distributional Consequences and Regulatory Analysis. Institute for Policy Integrity. https://policyintegrity.org/publications/detail/distributional-consequences-and-regulatory-analysis

Chicago

Yi, Richard Revesz and Samantha. Distributional Consequences and Regulatory Analysis. Institute for Policy Integrity, 2021. https://policyintegrity.org/publications/detail/distributional-consequences-and-regulatory-analysis.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{yi2021distributional, author = {Yi, Richard Revesz and Samantha}, title = {{Distributional Consequences and Regulatory Analysis}}, institution = {Institute for Policy Integrity}, year = {2021}, month = apr, url = {https://policyintegrity.org/publications/detail/distributional-consequences-and-regulatory-analysis}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }