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Health benefits from urban air pollution abatement in the Indian subcontinent

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M.N. Murthy () (Instittue of Economic Growth)
S.C. Gulati () (Institute of Economic Growth)
A. Banerjee (Institute of Economic Growth)
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This paper provides estimates of household health production model for the urban areas of Delhi and Kolkata for measuring benefits from reducing urban air pollution. A system of simultaneous equations comprising of health production function, demand for mitigating activities, and the demand for averting activities is estimated using 3SLS and GMM methods of estimation. The primary data about the health status and socioeconomic characteristics of households were collected for a sample of 1250 households from each city. An estimate of marginal willingness to pay function and welfare gains for a representative household for reducing air pollution to the safe level is obtained for each city. The estimate of annual benefits to all the households in each city is made by extrapolation to the total urban population. This estimate is found to be Rs 5606.6 million for Delhi and Rs 3022.4 million for Kolkata.

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Paper provided by Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, India in its series Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi Discussion Papers with number 62.

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Keywords: Health production function; urban pollution; welfare gains;

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  1. M.N. Murthy & S.C. Gulati & A. Banerjee, 2003. "Hedonic property prices and valuation of benefits from reducing urban air pollution in India," Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi Discussion Papers 61, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, India. [Downloadable!]
  2. Usha Gupta, 2008. "Valuation of Urban Air Pollution: A Case Study of Kanpur City in India," Environmental & Resource Economics, European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 41(3), pages 315-326, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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