| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w29637 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 29637 |
| Bounds, Benefits, and Bad Air: Welfare Impacts of Pollution Alerts | |
| Michael L. Anderson; Minwoo Hyun; Jaecheol Lee | |
| 发表日期 | 2022-01-10 |
| 出版年 | 2022 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Though air-quality alert systems (AQAS) cover more than 1.7 billion people worldwide, there has been little welfare analysis of these systems. This paper presents a theoretical framework for deriving lower bounds on the net benefits of an AQAS and applies it to a South Korean system currently covering over 51 million people. Estimating a regression discontinuity design, we find that an alert issuance reduced youth respiratory expenditures by 30% and adult cardiovascular expenditures by 23%. The overall system reduced externalized health expenditures by 28.6 million dollars during 2016–2017, with a minimum benefit-cost ratio of 7.1:1. Including dynamic impacts of alerts increases the minimum benefits (benefit-cost ratio) to 36.7 million dollars (9.2:1). Our findings imply that the AQAS generates significant net benefits and suggests that manipulation of air quality data, which has been observed in other contexts, may negatively impact social welfare. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Environmental and Resource Economics ; Environment |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w29637 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/587310 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Michael L. Anderson,Minwoo Hyun,Jaecheol Lee. Bounds, Benefits, and Bad Air: Welfare Impacts of Pollution Alerts. 2022. |
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| w29637.pdf（1093KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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