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Author : Alberini Anna
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 50,36 MB
Release : 2010-12-01
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ISBN : 9264038043
This report, the final output of the Valuation of Environment-Related Health Impacts (VERHI) project, presents new findings on whether the value of reducing environmental risk greater for children than for adults.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 32,44 MB
Release : 2006-01-12
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ISBN : 9264013989
This OECD book proposes an in depth analysis of the main methodological difficulties associated with estimating the social value of a reduction in environmental health risks to children.
Author : Shelby Gerking
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 15,81 MB
Release : 2014
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This article reviews the economics literature dealing with valuation of reduced environmental risks to children's health. We describe conceptual models together with results from a number of empirical studies. The conceptual models analyze valuation issues from the perspective of parents; treat health risk as endogenously determined; and demonstrate that in equilibrium, marginal willingness to pay to reduce risk for the child relative to marginal willingness to pay to reduce risk for the parent should equal the ratio of marginal risk reduction costs. Empirical studies treat both mortality and morbidity associated with exposure to environmental health risks. These studies generally find that parents are willing to pay more for absolute risk reductions for their children than they are willing to pay for corresponding risk reductions for themselves. Possible reasons for this outcome along with suggestions for further research are discussed.
Author : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Publisher : OECD
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 12,20 MB
Release : 2006-02-03
Category : Medical
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The relationship between environment and children’s health has been the subject of increasing interest these last ten years. For instance, many OECD Member countries are reporting asthma epidemics exacerbated by air pollution: in the United States nearly 1 in 13 school-age children (approximately 4.8 million) has asthma, and the rate is increasing more rapidly in school-age children than in any other group. The importance of this issue has resulted in a growing number of epidemiological studies aiming at better understanding and better characterising the relationship between environmental pollution and the health of children. However, in many respects, the valuation of children’s health strongly differs from the valuation of adults’ health and constitutes a real challenge for analysts as well as for decision-makers. Consequently, this book proposes an in depth analysis of the main methodological difficulties associated with estimating the social value of a reduction in risk to children. Questions such as how to elicit children’s preferences, what valuation methodology and benefit measure to choose, how to discount benefits to children’s health, and how to account for economic uncertainties in this specific context of economic valuation will be systematically examined in order to define key policy implications and to pave the way for further research.
Author : Alberini Anna
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 41,5 MB
Release : 2011-01-14
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ISBN : 9789264068100
This report, the final output of the Valuation of Environment-Related Health Impacts (VERHI) project, presents new findings on whether the value of reducing environmental risk greater for children than for adults.
Author : Jason F. Shogren
Publisher :
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 17,61 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Environmental risk assessment
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This paper discusses indirect child welfare effects associated with environmental health. It considers the economic value of reducing the indirect risk to a childs life chances from environmental threats to (a) caregiver health, (b) sibling health or the childs health, and (c) the health of the surrounding natural environment and the consequent caregivers choices. Each of these effects can reduce the healthy childs chance to be productive, to complement the work of others, and to contribute to the common good. In addition, this paper considers what evidence exists in the current literature that might quantify these effects, and whether these effects may be important to policy makers both for child health-related regulations and for regulations involving adult health effects. Finally, this paper also considers whether these indirect effects can be linked to existing models to value childrens health effects.
Author : n F. Shogren
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,46 MB
Release : 2007
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Children can face disproportionately greater risk from environmental hazards because they are kids-smaller bodies, faster metabolisms, shorter attentions spans, less knowledge, and fewer resources. Environmental programs that reduce risks to children produce benefits to society that should be adequately represented so policy makers have more information to help them decide which policies are most worthwhile relative to their costs. The open question is just how exactly to value these reductions in risks to children, risks which can arise either from a direct effect on their health, or an indirect effect on their life chances because of illness in other family members or the degradation of the environment. This article focuses on valuing these indirect effects to a child`s life chances. The question addressed here is whether standard benefits estimation adequately captures the indirect effects on healthy children. If policy makers presume caregivers make fully informed, rational choices when dealing with adverse family health, indirect effects are already accounted for in revealed and stated values: estimating indirect effects implies double counting of benefits. But if policy makers fear that caregivers face choice without complete information or experience, indirect effects might be understated. Then it becomes constructive to devote resources to explore the importance of these indirect effects.
Author : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Publisher :
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 43,91 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Environmental health
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Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 21,93 MB
Release : 1990-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0309041953
Author : Mark D. Agee
Publisher :
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 36,18 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Benefit analysis
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This paper describes alternative empirical techniques of economic analysis to assess the monetary value of human health, and outlines the issues that arise when these techniques are transported to value environmental hazard interventions intended to improve the health of young children. It examines four economic valuation techniques currently used to assess changes in human health (i.e., cost of illness method, hedonic method, averting behavior method, and contingent valuation method) and critiques the applicability of these techniques for assessing the value of children's health changes.