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Maureen L. Cropper
Researcher at University of Maryland, College Park
Publications - 180
Citations - 18145
Maureen L. Cropper is an academic researcher from University of Maryland, College Park. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Willingness to pay. The author has an hindex of 51, co-authored 173 publications receiving 15988 citations. Previous affiliations of Maureen L. Cropper include University of California, Riverside & World Bank.
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Health benefits of air pollution abatement policy: Role of the shape of the concentration–response function
TL;DR: The role of the shape of the C-R function in evaluating and understanding the costs and health benefits of air pollution abatement policy is explored and it is suggested that incremental pollutionAbatement efforts may yield greater benefits in relatively clean areas than in highly polluted areas.
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The Health Benefits of Air Pollution Control in Delhi
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reported the results of a study relating levels of particulate matter to daily deaths in Delhi, India, between 1991 and 1994, and the average total suspended particulate (TSP) level in Delhi was 375 micrograms per cubic meter-approximately five times the annual average standard of the World Health Organization (WHO).
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Valuing future risks to life
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined willingness to pay for future risk reductions from the perspective of the current generation, and found that the implied discount factor may be substantial. But they did not consider the impact of environmental policies on both current and future generations.
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Discounting Human Lives
TL;DR: For example, this article found that the number of lives that must be saved in the future to make people as content as saving one life today, compared this implicit discount rate to respondents' discount rate for money, and identified several factors that affect discount rates for human lives.
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The demand for a malaria vaccine: evidence from Ethiopia
Maureen L. Cropper,Maureen L. Cropper,Mitiku Haile,Julian A. Lampietti,Christine Poulos,Dale Whittington +5 more
TL;DR: The results indicate that the value of preventing malaria with vaccines is about US$36 per household per year, or about 15% of imputed annual household income.