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What follows when a state calls nature reserve centres merit goods and expands them.
AQA · 7136 / 7135
Externalities comes up in 35 questions across the AQA A Level and AS past papers (7136 / 7135), worth 219 marks between them. They run from 2020 to 2023 and appear on AS Level Paper 1.
Tariffs run from 1 to 25 marks. The commonest instructions are Multiple choice (17), Draw (5), Evaluate (3). Specification points covered: 3.1.5.1, 3.1.5.3, 3.1.5.4, 3.1.5.5, 3.1.5.6, 3.1.5.7, 3.1.5.8, 3.1.5.9.
What follows when a state calls nature reserve centres merit goods and expands them.
What can be concluded from one country having a higher median income.
Describe the failure when farmers under-provide wildlife-friendly field boundaries.
Which elasticity combination minimises the shortage created by a fruit price ceiling?
Valid conclusion about UK health services supplied both publicly and privately.
Which policy would lift consumption of a merit good to its optimum level.
Evaluate government responses to failures in oil markets.
Plot a bar chart showing UK drone and aircraft near misses.
Assess the case for promoting, restricting or ignoring drone use.
Identify the defining feature every public good must possess.
Work out the producers' share of a new duty levied on doughnuts.
Deduce externalities from tabulated private and social costs and benefits of woodland.
How the price mechanism directs factors between competing uses.
Choosing the tax or subsidy rate that reaches the socially optimal packaging output.
Diagram: effect on the water market of a price ceiling below equilibrium.
Assess whether every household should be charged by volume consumed.
Give the meaning of the term income.
Diagram: effect on alcohol trade of lifting the legal purchase age to 21.
Explain probable effects of taxing alcohol through indirect taxation.
Assess the case for minimum alcohol pricing across the rest of the UK.
When can intervention be said to have produced government failure?
Why loft insulation is underproduced when buyers misjudge its benefits.
Likely effect of a price floor set above the going rate for bottled water.
What a spillover benefit from production implies for output without intervention.
Conclusions from a rising income share for the poorest fifth and a falling one for the richest.
How unregulated price and quantity compare with the optimum when consumption harms others.
Calculate the gap between median take-up rates for men and women.
Identify two comparisons of male and female concessionary travel take-up.
Diagram: bus market effects of a subsidy, with total government spending shown.
Evaluate whether free bus passes for pensioners should continue, be narrowed or end.
Give the meaning of the term social cost.
Calculate the gap between mean smoking rates for men and women.
Identify two comparisons of male and female smoking rates shown.
Diagram: cigarette market effects of indirect taxation, with tax revenue shown.
Evaluate whether ministers should back, deter or leave alone e-cigarette use.
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