Maureen L. Cropper

TL;DR: A survey of 5,000 households in the Greater Mumbai Region conducted in the winter of 2004 as mentioned in this paper showed that 44 percent of commuters in Mumbai walk to work and 63 percent of the non-walkers did not work.

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.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the effect of costs and benefits on regulatory decisions made under three environmental statutes, two of which require balancing and one of which does not, and they found that costs were significant explanatory variables for all three sets of decisions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors quantified the contribution of PM2·5 pollution to intelligence quotient (IQ) loss in children younger than 10 years, with use of an exposureresponse coefficient based on previously published data.

TL;DR: In this paper, a growing empirical literature estimates models of long-term interest rates and uses them to forecast the declining discount rate schedule for public projects, focusing on models for the United States.