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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/10013020700
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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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Valuing air quality using happiness data : the case of China
Zhang, Xin; Zhang, Xiaobo; Chen, Xi - 2016
This paper estimates the monetary value of cutting PM2.5, a dominant source of air pollution in China. By matching … interviews in China, we are able to estimate the relationship between local concentration of particulate matter and individual … willing to pay ¥539 ($88, or 3.8% of annual household per capita income) for a 1 μg/m3 reduction in PM2.5 per year per person. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011497267
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Pollution Control Innovations and the Clean Air Act of 1990
Popp, David - 2021
Although economists cite potential gains from induced innovation as an advantage of using market-based mechanisms to protect the environment, counts of patents related to flue gas desulfurization units ('scrubbers') peaked before trading of sulfur dioxide (SO2) permits began. This paper uses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013222060
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Pollution Control Innovations and the Clean Air Act of 1990
Popp, David - 2001
Although economists cite potential gains from induced innovation as an advantage of using market-based mechanisms to protect the environment, counts of patents related to flue gas desulfurization units ('scrubbers') peaked before trading of sulfur dioxide (SO2) permits began. This paper uses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470123
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Air pollutants and outlays vs quality of life in Poland and the welfare economics
Pakulska, Jolanta - In: Ekonomia i prawo 21 (2022) 2, pp. 489-501
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013474004
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Environment and happiness : valuation of air pollution in ten European countries
Welsch, Heinz - 2003
This paper uses a set of panel data from happiness surveys, jointly with data on per capita income and pollution, to examine how self-reported well-being varies with prosperity and environmental conditions. This approach permits to show that citizens care about prosperity and the environment,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011438755
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Low emission zones improve air quality and health but temporarily decrease life satisfaction
Sarmiento Abogado, Luis Alejandro; Wägner, Nicole; … - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 12 (2022) 13, pp. 99-106
Air pollution results in high economic costs arising from its negative impacts on human health, especially in urban areas. Driving restriction policies such as low emission zones (LEZs) are designed to improve air quality. Indeed, empirical analyses in this Weekly Report confirm that LEZs reduce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013174088
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Subjective Well-Being and Air Quality in Germany
Schmitt, Maike - 2013
county O3 has to be compensated by an increase of €11.33 in monthly net household income to hold an average individual's LS …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014160234
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Preferences Over Prosperity and Pollution : Environmental Valuation Based on Happiness Surveys
Welsch, Heinz - 2014
This paper uses cross-national data from happiness surveys, jointly with data on per capita income and pollution, to examine how self-reported well-being varies with prosperity and environmental conditions. This approach allows us to show that citizens care about prosperity and the environment,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014092984