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The life satisfaction approach to environmental valuation
Frey, Bruno S.; Lüchinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois - 2009
-market valuation ; cost-benefit analysis ; air pollution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003903197
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Does access to health care mitigate environmental damages?
Mullins, Jamie T.; White, Corey D. - 2019
Differential access to health care is commonly cited as a source of heterogeneity in the health effects of environmental exposure, yet little causal evidence exists to support such claims. We test this hypothesis by utilizing exogenous variation in both access to health care and environmental...
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Wet laws, drinking establishments, and violent crime
Anderson, D. Mark; Crost, Benjamin; Rees, Daniel I. - 2014
Drawing on county-level data from Kansas for the period 1977-2011, we examine whether plausibly exogenous increases in the number of establishments licensed to sell alcohol by the drink are related to violent crime. During this period, 86 out of 105 counties in Kansas voted to legalize the sale...
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Arsenic contamination of drinking water and mental health
Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Krause-Pilatus, Annabelle; … - 2015
arsenic contamination of groundwater to construct several measures for arsenic contamination that include the actual arsenic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347206
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Still waters run deep : groundwater contamination and education outcomes in India
Aggarwal, Khushboo; Barua, Rashmi; Vidal-Fernandez, Marian - 2024
We investigate the impact of groundwater contamination on educational outcomes in India. Our study leverages variations … exposure to contaminants. Using self-collected survey data from public schools in Assam, one of the most groundwater …-contaminated regions in India, we find that prolonged exposure to unsafe groundwater is associated with increased school absenteeism, grade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014495916
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Addressing the COVID-19 pandemic: comparing alternative value frameworks
Ferranna, Maddalena; Sevilla, J. P.; Bloom, David E. - 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced countries to make difficult ethical choices, e.g., how to balance public health and socioeconomic activity and whom to prioritize in allocating vaccines or other scarce medical resources. We discuss the implications of benefit-cost analysis, utilitarianism, and...
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Behavioral economics and the value of a statistical life
Kniesner, Thomas J. - 2019
There are many possible connections between VSL and behavioral economics. A list of topics includes endowment effects, risk salience, ambiguity aversion, present bias, reference groups, reference points, and experienced versus decision utilities. There are also nudges that connect to estimating...
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The forgotten numbers: a closer look at COVID-19 non-fatal valuations
Kniesner, Thomas J.; Sullivan, Ryan - 2020
Our research estimates Covid-19 non-fatal economic losses in the U.S. using detailed data on cumulative cases and hospitalizations from January 22, 2020 to July 27, 2020, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). As of July 27, 2020, the cumulative confirmed number of cases was...
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Promoting equity through equitable risk tradeoffs
Kniesner, Thomas J.; Viscusi, W. Kip - 2022
The impact and economic merits of President Biden's Executive Order 13985 on equity depend on how the executive order is implemented. While policy discussion to date has focused on equitable outcomes, we propose framing risk equity policies in terms of equitable risk tradeoff rates based on six...
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The benefits and costs of U.S. employer COVID-19 vaccine mandates
Ferranna, Maddalena; Robinson, Lisa A.; Cadarette, Daniel; … - 2022
In 2021, the Biden Administration issued mandates requiring COVID-19 vaccinations for U.S. federal employees and contractors and for some healthcare and private sector workers. Although these mandates have been subject to legal challenges and some have been halted or delayed, rigorous appraisal...
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