The air pollution effects on children’s health in Great Britain

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2017-12

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Özdamar, Öznur
Giovanis, Eleftherios

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This study explores the relationship between air pollution, children’s health status and the parents’ willingness to pay for improving the air quality in Great Britain. The estimates are based on cross-sectional data from the General Lifestyle Survey over the period 2000-2010. Ground-level ozone (O3) and nitrogen oxides (NOX) are the two main air pollutants examined. The findings rely on regression estimates and the average marginal willingness to pay obtained using the samples derived under specific assumptions. The results show the annual average marginal willingness to pay for O3 and NOX range between £2,263-£3,108 and £520-£1,121 for one unit reduction in standard deviation. Furthermore, the results show that the cost of planned inpatient hospital stay is more than 1.2 times of marginal willingness to pay for non-movers during the sample period in the case of O3.

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Air pollution, Environmental valuation, Health status, Pseudo-panel Data

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http://www2.feas.metu.edu.tr/metusd/ojs/index.php/metusd/article/view/892
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/58159

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ODTÜ Gelişme Dergisi

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Department of Economics, Article

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Ö. Özdamar and E. Giovanis, “The air pollution effects on children’s health in Great Britain,” ODTÜ Gelişme Dergisi, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 301–333, 2017, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: http://www2.feas.metu.edu.tr/metusd/ojs/index.php/metusd/article/view/892.