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This paper appeared in Econometrica in November, 1983.

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ABSTRACT:
When is the Pareto optimal amount of public goods independent of income distribution? Subject to some regularity conditions, the answer is when preferences of every individual i can be represented by a utility function of the form U(X_i,Y)=A(Y)X_i+B_i(Y) where X_i is i's consumption of private goods and Y is the amount of public goods.

SUGGESTED CITATION:
Ted Bergstrom and Richard Cornes, "Independence of Allocative Efficiency from Distribution in the Theory of Public Goods" (November 1, 1983). Department of Economics, UCSB. Ted Bergstrom. Paper 1983B.
http://repositories.cdlib.org/ucsbecon/bergstrom/1983B