| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w14977 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 14977 |
| Toxic Exposure in America: Estimating Fetal and Infant Health Outcomes | |
| Nikhil Agarwal; Chanont Banternghansa; Linda Bui | |
| 发表日期 | 2009-05-21 |
| 出版年 | 2009 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We examine the effect of exposure to toxic releases that are tracked by the Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) on county-level infant and fetal mortality rates in the United States between 1989-2002. We find significant adverse effects of TRI concentrations on infant mortality rates, but not on fetal mortality rates. In particular, we estimate that the average county-level decrease in aggregate TRI concentrations saved in excess of 25,000 infant lives from 1989-2002. Using a value of life of $1.8M - $8.7M, the savings in lives would be valued at $45B - $217.5B. We also find that the effect of toxic exposure on health outcomes varies across pollution media: air pollution has a larger impact on health outcomes than either water or land. And, within air pollution, releases of carcinogens are particularly problematic for infant health outcomes. We do not, however, find any significant effect on health outcomes from exposure to two criteria air pollutants -- PM10 and ozone. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Environmental and Resource Economics ; Environment |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w14977 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/572653 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Nikhil Agarwal,Chanont Banternghansa,Linda Bui. Toxic Exposure in America: Estimating Fetal and Infant Health Outcomes. 2009. |
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