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Atmospheric pollution and health
[Contaminación atmosférica y salud]

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  • Olivier Chanel

    (GREQAM - Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - AMU - Aix Marseille Université - ECM - École Centrale de Marseille - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Serge Masson

    (GREQAM - Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - AMU - Aix Marseille Université - ECM - École Centrale de Marseille - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Pascale Scapecchi

    (EUREQUA - Equipe Universitaire de Recherche en Economie Quantitative - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Jean-Christophe Vergnaud

    (BETA - Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - UNISTRA - Université de Strasbourg - UL - Université de Lorraine - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

Abstract

This paper is concerned with the difficulty of taking into account long term health effects in an economic valuation. Since health effects are due to past and cumulative exposure to adverse risk factors, a delay occurs between the implementation of an abatment policy and the obtention of the whole expected health benefits. A methodology is developped and make possible the estimation of these delays for mortality related health benefits. An application to air pollution abatment policies is carried on within a formal cost-benefit analysis, considering several parameters. The main findings are that benefits corresponding to long term health effects should be divided by a factor of 1,6 to 2,5 when incorporated in a cost-benefit analysis. Moreover, the discount rate is found to have opposite effects on the results depending on the method chosen to value benefits.

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  • Olivier Chanel & Serge Masson & Pascale Scapecchi & Jean-Christophe Vergnaud, 2019. "Atmospheric pollution and health [Contaminación atmosférica y salud]," Post-Print halshs-00150059, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-00150059
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    Keywords

    Air pollution; long term mortality; cost-benefit analysis; discounting; life expectancy.; mortalité; coûts sanitaires; espérance de vie; actualisation; Pollution de l'air; effet de long terme; analyse coût-bénéfice;
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    JEL classification:

    • D62 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Externalities
    • Q25 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - Water

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