Showing papers by "Maureen L. Cropper published in 2018"
TL;DR: It is envisioned that the Global Observatory on Pollution and Health will be a multinational consortium based at Boston College and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health that will aggregate, geocode, and archive data on pollution and pollution-related disease; analyze these data to discern trends, geographic patterns, and opportunities for intervention.
Abstract: Summary: Pollution is a major, overlooked, global health threat that was responsible in 2015 for an estimated 9 million deaths and great economic losses. To end neglect of pollution and advance pre...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors quantify the cost savings from the Acid Rain Program (ARP) by comparing compliance costs for 761 coal-fired generating units under the ARP with compliance costs under a counterfactual uniform performance standard (UPS) that would have achieved the same aggregate emissions in 2002.
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TL;DR: In this article, the costs, benefits, and distributional impacts of new environmental regulations are analyzed in a prospective or ex ante way. But the analysis is limited to two types of regulations.
Abstract: Prospective or ex ante studies of the costs, benefits, and distributional impacts of new environmental regulations are now commonly performed in many countries. Retrospective analyses, whic...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare estimates of marginal willingness to pay (MWTP), allowing preferences for climate amenities to vary by location, and find that mean MWTP for warmer winters is about twice as large using the discrete choice approach as with the hedonic approach.
Abstract: Amenities that vary across cities are typically valued using either a hedonic model, in which amenities are capitalized into wages and housing prices, or a discrete model of household location choice In this paper, we use the 2000 Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) to value climate amenities using both methods We compare estimates of marginal willingness to pay (MWTP), allowing preferences for climate amenities to vary by location We find that mean MWTP for warmer winters is about twice as large using the discrete choice approach as with the hedonic approach; mean MWTP for cooler summers is approximately the same The two approaches differ, however, in their estimates of taste sorting The discrete choice model implies that households with the highest MWTP for warmer winters locate in cities with the mildest winters, while the hedonic model does not Differences in estimates are due to primarily to two factors: (1) the discrete choice model incorporates the psychological costs of moving from one’s birthplace, which the hedonic models do not; (2) the discrete choice model uses information on market shares (ie, population) in estimating parameters, which the hedonic model does not
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