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Willingness to Pay for Clean Air : Evidence from Air Purifier Markets in China
Ito, Koichiro - 2016
framework to product-by-store level scanner data on air purifier sales in China, we provide among the first revealed preference …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456310
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Willingness to Pay for Clean Air in China
Freeman, Richard - 2017
China. The model is estimated using China Population Census Data along with PM2.5 satellite data. Our study provides new … equilibrium sorting model to the valuation of non-market amenities in China. We employ two novel instrumental variables based on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453556
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Defensive Investments and the Demand for Air Quality : Evidence from the NOx Budget Program and Ozone Reductions
Deschenes, Olivier - 2012
Willingness to pay for air quality is a function of health and the costly defensive investments that contribute to health, but there is little research assessing the empirical importance of defensive investments. The setting for this paper is a large US emissions cap and trade market - the NOx...
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Who Counts in Evaluating the Effects of Air Pollution Policies on Households? Non-Market Valuation in the Presence of Dependencies
Evans, Mary F. - 2009
Individuals who are likely to realize the largest benefits from improvements in air quality often depend on other members of their households to make time or monetary contributions to their care. The presence of these dependency relationships among household members poses challenges for benefit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463284
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The Promise of Beijing : Evaluating the Impact of the 2008 Olympic Games on Air Quality
Chen, Yuyu - 2011
To prepare for the 2008 Olympic Games, China adopted a number of radical measures to improve air quality. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461750
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Self-Protection Investment Exacerbates Air Pollution Exposure Inequality in Urban China
Zheng, Siqi - 2015
Urban China's high levels of ambient air pollution both lowers quality of life and raises mortality risk. China … inequality in human capital accumulation and in quality of life inequality in urban China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457366
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Gaming in Air Pollution Data? Lessons from China
Chen, Yuyu - 2013
regulatory measures that China has adopted to incentivize air quality improvement: publishing a daily air pollution index (API …) for major cities since 2000 and linking the API to performance evaluations of local governments. In particular, China … alternative measures of air pollution - namely visibility as reported by the China Meteorological Administration (CMA) and Aerosol …
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The Long-run Effect of Air Pollution on Survival
Deryugina, Tatyana; Reif, Julian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Many environmental hazards produce health effects that take years to arise, but quasi-experimental studies typically measure outcomes and treatment over short time periods. We develop a new approach to overcome this challenge and use it to gauge the effect of exposure to air pollution on US life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014436989
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Air Pollution and Infant Health : What Can We Learn From California's Recent Experience
Currie, Janet - 2004
We examine the impact of air pollution on infant death in California over the 1990s. Our work offers several innovations: First, many previous studies examine populations subject to far greater levels of pollution. In contrast, the experience of California in the 1990s is clearly relevant to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468442
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Air Quality, Infant Mortality, and the Clean Air Act of 1970
Chay, Kenneth Y. - 2003
We examine the effects of total suspended particulates (TSPs) air pollution on infant health using the air quality improvements induced by the 1970 Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA). This legislation imposed strict regulations on industrial polluters in nonattainment' counties with TSPs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468641