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Valuation of Urban Air Pollution: A Case Study of Kanpur City in India

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  • Usha Gupta

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    This study estimates the monetary benefits to individuals from health damages avoided as a result on reductions in air pollution in the urban industrial city of Kanpur in India. A notable feature of this study is that it uses data from weekly health-diaries collected for three seasons. For measuring monetary benefits, the study considers two major components of health cost — the loss in wages due to workdays lost and the expenditure incurred on mitigating activities.

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    Keywords: Kanpur; Air Pollution; Health Damages; Mitigating Activities; Health-diary; Panel Data; Health Production Function; environment; Economics; Environmental Economics;

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    Cited by:

    1. Jayashree Chowdhury & Ratul Mahanta & Hiranya K. Nath, 2015. "Health Costs of Arsenic Contamination of Drinking Water in Assam, India," Working Papers 1503, Sam Houston State University, Department of Economics and International Business.
    2. Min Bikram Malla Thakuri, 2010. "Revisiting the Need of Improved Stoves: Estimating Health, Time and Carbon Benefits," Working Papers id:2398, eSocialSciences.

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