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An Assessment of the Benefits of Air Pollution Control: The Case of Infant Health

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Theodore J. Joyce
Michael Grossman
Fred Goldman

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This paper contains estimates of the impacts of air pollutants on race-specific neonatal mortality rates based on data for heavily populated counties of the U.S. in 1977. Unlike previous research in this area, these estimates are obtained from awell specified behavioral model of the production of health, which is estimated with the appropriate simultaneous equations techniques. The results suggest that sulfur dioxide is the dominant air pollutant in newborn survival outcomes. There is also evidence that an increase in sulfur dioxide raises the neonatal mortality rate by raising the percentage of low-birth weight births. Based on marginal-willingness-to-pay computations, we estimate that the benefits of a 10 percent reduction insulfur dioxide levels range between $54 million and $1.09 billion in 1977 dollars.

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Paper provided by National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc in its series NBER Working Papers with number 1928.

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Date of creation: Jun 1989
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Publication status: published as Journal of Urban Economics, Vol. 25, pp. 32-51, (January 1989).
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  3. Theodore J. Joyce, 1987. "The Impact of Induced Abortion on Birth Outcomes in the U.S," NBER Working Papers 1757, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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