A5020635091- Economic and Environmental Valuation
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University of Maryland, Baltimore
2025
Johns Hopkins University
2025
Boston College
2025
Resources For The Future
2013-2024
University of Maryland, College Park
2015-2024
National Bureau of Economic Research
2010-2022
World Bank Group
2007-2022
Carnegie Mellon University
2022
University of Massachusetts Amherst
2022
John F. Kennedy University
2020-2022
Title IV of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA) established a market for transferable sulfur dioxide (SO2) emission allowances among electric utilities. This offers firms facing high marginal abatement costs opportunity to purchase right emit SO2 from with lower costs, and this is expected yield cost savings compared command‐and‐control approach environmental regulation. paper uses econometrically estimated functions power plants affected by CAAA evaluate performance allowance market....
This study examines how errors in measuring marginal attribute pric es vary with the form of hedonic price function. In simulations, consumers known utility functions bid for houses given attributes. Various forms function are estimated using equilibrium housing prices. Errors estimating prices calculated by comparing each consumer's vector gradient When all attributes observed, linear and quadratic Box-Cox produce lowest mean percentage errors; however, when some unobserved or replaced...
We examine the effects of urban form and public transit supply on commute mode choices annual vehicle miles traveled (VMTs) households living in 114 areas 1990. The probability driving to work is lower higher are population centrality rail supplied road density. Population centrality, jobs-housing balance, city shape, density have a significant effect household VMTs. Although individual elasticities small absolute values (≤0.10), moving sample from with characteristics Atlanta Boston reduces...
Benefit-cost analysis can play an important role in legislative and regulatory policy debates on protecting improving health, safety, the natural environment. Although formal benefit-cost should not be viewed as either necessary or sufficient for designing sensible public policy, it provide exceptionally useful framework consistently organizing disparate information, this way, greatly improve process and, hence, outcome of analysis. If properly done, great help to agencies participating...
The association of air pollution with multiple adverse health outcomes is becoming well established, but its negative economic impact less appreciated. It important to elucidate this for the states India.
The United States and others should consider adopting a different approach to estimating costs benefits in light of uncertainty.
Should governments use a discount rate that declines over time when evaluating the future benefits and costs of public projects? The argument for using declining (DDR) is simple: if rates will be applied in are uncertain but positively correlated, analyst can assign probabilities to these rates, then result schedule certainty-equivalent rates. There growing empirical literature estimates models long-term interest uses them forecast DDR schedule. However, this has been criticized because it...
<h2>Summary</h2><h3>Background</h3> Africa is undergoing both an environmental and epidemiological transition. Household air pollution the predominant form of pollution, but it declining, whereas ambient increasing. We aimed to quantify how affecting health, human capital, economy across Africa, with a particular focus on Ethiopia, Ghana, Rwanda. <h3>Methods</h3> Data household were from WHO Global Health Observatory, data morbidity mortality 2019 Burden Disease Study. estimated economic...
This paper examines the EPA's decision to cancel or continue registrations of cancer-causing pesticides that went through special review process between 1975 and 1989. Despite claims contrary, our analysis indicates EPA indeed balanced risks against benefits in regulating pesticides: Risks human health environment increased likelihood a particular pesticide use was canceled by EPA; at same time, larger associated with use, lower cancellation. Intervention special-interest groups also...
This book is an advanced text in welfare economics and its application to environmental economics. It provides, the first chapters, a comprehensive survey of developments theory measurement welfare, then applies this The part derives consumer surplus measures be held timeless world. Throughout emphasis on circumstances which money measure correctly reflects underlying utility change. Four main cases are considered: unrationed private goods, rationed public goods or externalities, discrete...
This paper presents two models of investment in health which explicitly recognize the random nature illness and death. The first model examines life-cycle behavior capital when motive for investing is to decrease probability illness. In second individual invests through his choice occupation. determines extent exposure a pollutant, such as asbestos, increases how pollution should vary with age predicts workers respond information about occupational dangers.
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There is strong evidence that fine particulate matter (aerodynamic diameter<2.5 μm; PM2.5) air pollution contributes to increased risk of disease and death. Estimates the burden attributable PM2.5 benefits reducing are dependent upon shape concentration response (C-R) functions. Recent suggests C-R function between mortality may be supralinear across wide ranges exposure. Such results imply incremental abatement efforts yield greater in relatively clean areas than highly polluted areas. The...
We ask whether the US government should replace its current discounting practices with a declining discount rate schedule, as United Kingdom and France have done, or continue to future at constant exponential rate. present theoretical basis for (DDR) but focus on how, in practice, DDR could be estimated use by policy analysts. discuss empirical approaches literature review how their schedules. conclude advice States might proceed consider modifying practices.