Download or read book Essays in labor health and environmental economics written by Ann E. Ferris and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays in Environmental Health Economics written by Florian Haucke and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays in Public Health Energy and Environmental Economics written by Becky A. Lafrancois and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays in Empirical Environmental Economics and Health written by Stacy Ellen Sneeringer and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays in Health and Environmental Economics written by Beilei Cai and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays on Environmental Economics Health Economics and Industrial Organization written by Daniel Andres Herrera Araujo and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Le résumé en anglais n'a pas été communiqué par l'auteur.
Download or read book Ecology Economy and Society written by Vikram Dayal and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-30 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with not just complex linkages, interactions and exchanges that form the relationship between the economic activities, human society and the ecosystems, but also the influences and impacts that each causes on the other. In recent times, this ecology–economy–society interface has received unprecedented attention within the broader environment–development discourse. The volume is in honour of Kanchan Chopra, one of the pioneers of research in these areas in India. She has recently been awarded the coveted Kenneth Boulding Award by the International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE) and is the first Asian to receive it. The four sub-themes of the book reflect some of the important areas in the environment–development discourse — sustainability of development, institutions and environmental governance, environment and well-being, and ecosystem and conservation. Within each of the sub-themes, the policy and the practice as well as the macro and micro aspects are addressed. With contributions mainly from ecological economists and ecologists, the book’s approach is interdisciplinary, both in spirit and content, reflecting the honoree's work, which went not just beyond the mainstream ideology of economics, but also the way she listened to ideas from disciplines like ecology and sociology. The volume also includes two reflective essays on academic life and works of Kanchan Chopra. The book is a valuable resource for students, teachers, researchers, practitioners and policy makers in the areas of development economics, ecological economics, environmental economics and related disciplines such as conservation, development, ecology, economics, environment, governance, health, sociology and public policy.
Download or read book Valuing Environmental Benefits written by Maureen L. Cropper and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of Maureen Cropper's essays brings together methods for valuing environmental benefits. It particularly focuses on health benefits, as well as analyses of the benfits implicitly attached to human health and ecosystems by environmental regulations.
Download or read book Essays in Environmental Economics and Policy written by Sheila Marie Cavanagh and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Air Pollution Climate Change and Human Health written by Hannah Charlotte Klauber and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays in Development and Environmental Economics written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation discusses three questions of development and environmental economics. First, it assesses the impact of mineral mining on the health and wealth of households in local communities across 44 developing countries, using micro data. Secondly, it presents evidence from a randomized controlled trial on the cost-shared provision of well-water tests for arsenic. Finally, it analyzes measurement error in a satellite night light data product widely used in development research, and investigates the scope for using the data in very high spatial resolution.
Download or read book Essays in Environmental Economics written by Fatemeh Behzadnejad and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Life satisfaction has been widely used in recent years for evaluating the welfare impacts ofthe environment. In Chapters 1 and 2, the effect of a number of environmental factors on well-being is studied. In Chapter 1, a set of repeated cross-sectional surveys is combined with high-resolution pollution and weather data. The respondents' level of life satisfaction is modeled as a function of their socioeconomic characteristics and income as well as the weather and air pollution on the day of the survey interview. In order to overcome endogeneity problems, a set of high-resolution geographic fixed effects is included in all specifications. The empirical analysis in this chapter suggests that even after controlling for seasonal and local fixed effects, higher air pollution significantly reduces life satisfaction. The adverse effect of transient increases in air pollution is greater on individuals with poor health status. Estimating the average compensating differential between income and air pollution shows that the value of improving air quality by one-half standard deviation throughout the year is about 4.4% of the average annual income of Canadians. The empirical analysis in Chapter 2 is on two major health surveys in Canada, namely the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) and the National Population Health Survey (NPHS). In this chapter, it is shown that, after controlling for individuals' socioeconomic characteristics, temporal weather variations have a statistically significant effect on satisfaction with life. This effect is identified in a number of alternative specifications. Women and individuals with poor health conditions are more affected by weather conditions. Although statistically significant, the effect of weather on life satisfaction is small compared to the major socioeconomic determinants of well-being. Confirming the results of past studies, the analysis of the repeated cross-sectional data shows the impact of long-term climate variables on life satisfaction. Most studies on the dynamic game of exhaustible resources rely on analytical solutions to find the equilibrium. In Chapter 3, numerical approaches to finding the feedback and the open-loop equilibriums are applied to examine the robustness of the results of a number of studies that were limited to analytical solutions. In this chapter, first the analysis in Salo and Tahvonen (2001), which assumes an economic depletion of resources, is extended to the case of an iso-elastic demand combined with reserve-dependent costs by applying two different numerical methods. In addition, the open-loop equilibrium is derived numerically and the results are compared with those of the feedback equilibrium. We examine separately the cases with identical costs and cost asymmetry among producers. Next, the study of Benchekroun and Van Long (2006) on the impact of an increase in resource stock is extended by considering production costs. It is shown that, with non-zero costs, the high-cost firms might face a decrease in profit as a result of a resource increase." --
Download or read book Essays in Environmental Economics and Policy written by Dhawal Nagpal and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation comprises two essays that study normative environmental policy and the purported side effects of (already enacted) environmental policies.
Download or read book The Economic Approach to Environmental Policy written by A. Myrick Freeman and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These papers cover such topics as: the effects of environmental and resources policies on income distribution; the incorporation of distribution effects into environmental policy analysis; the role of economic incentives in environmental policy; the economic valuation of environment changes; and the consideration of risk and uncertainty in economic valuation and policy making. The book also includes papers on the ethical basis of environmental economics and the economic approach to environmental policy.
Download or read book Air Pollution Climate Change and Human Health written by Hannah Klauber and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays in Environmental Economics written by Justin Gallagher and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first chapter of the dissertation examines the learning process that economic agents use to update their expectation of an uncertain and infrequently observed event. The standard Bayesian updating model is restrictive in that it reflects the strong neo-classical assumption that economic agents efficiently incorporate new information with all available information when updating beliefs. I consider the case of flooding and estimate the effect of first-hand experience on flood insurance take-up. I compile a new nation-wide panel dataset of large regional floods and flood insurance policies in the US. First, I show that flood insurance take-up in flooded communities increases by 9% after a flood and then steadily declines, fully dissipating after 9 years. Floods do not affect take-up in geographically neighboring non-flooded communities unless these communities are in the same media market. The take-up rate in non-flooded communities that share a media market with a flooded community is one-third as large as in flooded communities. I interpret this evidence using the standard Beta-Bernoulli Bayesian learning model and a Beta-Bernoulli model that includes a forgetting/first-hand experience parameter. I find that the standard Bayesian model can not explain both the spike in insurance in the year of a flood and the decay rate of this effect on insurance take-up in the years after the flood. I conclude that the evidence is most consistent with a Bayesian model augmented with a forgetting/first-hand experience parameter. The second chapter of my dissertation examines the causal link between localized exposure to hazardous waste pollutants from motor vehicle exhaust and adverse human health outcomes for newborns. I explore whether an exogenous event--the 1994 Northridge Earthquake--can be used as a quasi-experiment to test how birth outcomes change from a sudden and unexpected increase in pollution. The Northridge Earthquake closed down portions of four busy highways in Los Angeles, CA for periods of 1-6 months. The highway traffic was diverted onto secondary roads that previous to the earthquake had a much lower traffic volume. The paper focuses on two health outcomes for newborns: birth weight and gestation period. Infants born preterm or with low birth weight are less likely to survive infancy, more likely to suffer from childhood illness, and have lower future earnings. Overall the results of this study are inconclusive due to the relatively small number of new births included in the sample design. However, the results do suggest that a mother's race, age, and level of education are more important than proximity to a highway. Being a minority race, a teenage mother, or not having any college education are correlated with lower birth weight. The size of these correlations are approximately an order of magnitude larger than the point estimates for the effect of living in close proximity to a road with heavy traffic. The third chapter of the dissertation uses the housing market to develop estimates of the local welfare impacts of Superfund sponsored clean-ups of hazardous waste sites. We show that if consumers value the clean-ups, then the hedonic model predicts that they will lead to increases in local housing prices and new home construction, as well as the migration of individuals that place a high value on environmental quality to the areas near the improved sites. We compare housing market outcomes in the areas surrounding the first 400 hazardous waste sites chosen for Superfund clean-ups to the areas surrounding the 290 sites that narrowly missed qualifying for these clean-ups. We find that Superfund clean-ups are associated with economically small and statistically indistinguishable from zero local changes in residential property values, property rental rates, housing supply, total population, and the types of individuals living near the sites. These findings are robust to a series of specification checks, including the application of a regression discontinuity design based on knowledge of the selection rule. Overall, the preferred estimates suggest that the local benefits of Superfund clean-ups are small and appear to be substantially lower than the $43 million mean cost of Superfund clean-ups.
Download or read book Three Essays in Environmental Economics and Environmental Human Rights written by Christopher R. Jeffords and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
