can be linked to existing models to value children’s health effects. …

One of the many difficult issues the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Children’s Health Protection is … addressing is the appropriate treatment of children’s health effects in the economic analyses performed by the Agency. Policy … have explicitly addressed children’s health issues. To assist the Agency in its efforts, this paper discusses the benefits …

Appropriate characterization and valuation of the health risks specific to children is important for effective … children and the information needs of economic analysts. Particular emphasis is given to transparency in risk characterization … coordinated risk and economic analyses that characterized and valued risks and benefits for children. …

This paper focuses on the availability and use of existing literature for the valuation of children's health effects …. Because the emphasis on children's health is relatively new, available studies focus on a small subset of health effects and … literature and provides an overall structure for discussing major classes of children's health effects. We then classify the …

intended to improve the health of young children. It examines four economic valuation techniques currently used to assess … method) and critiques the applicability of these techniques for assessing the value of children's health changes. …

follows the approach described in EPA’s 2008 report, The Approach Used for Estimating Changes in Children’s IQ from Lead Dust … indicate that children living below the poverty level are more likely to live where dust lead levels exceed the alternative … standard compared to children living above the poverty level. …