| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w29152 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 29152 |
| A Watershed Moment: The Clean Water Act and Infant Health | |
| Patrick Flynn; Michelle M. Marcus | |
| 发表日期 | 2021-08-16 |
| 出版年 | 2021 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | The Clean Water Act (CWA) significantly improved surface water quality, but at a cost exceeding the estimated benefits. We quantify the effect of the CWA on a direct measure of health and incorporate health benefits into a cost-benefit analysis. Using a difference-in-differences framework, we compare health upstream and downstream from wastewater treatment facilities before and after CWA grant receipt. Pollution only decreased downstream from facilities required to upgrade their treatment technology, and we leverage this additional variation with a triple difference. CWA grants increased average birth weight by 8 grams. A back-of-the-envelope calculation bounds infant health benefits below $32 billion. |
| 主题 | Public Economics ; National Fiscal Issues ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Environmental and Resource Economics ; Environment |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w29152 |
| 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/586825 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Patrick Flynn,Michelle M. Marcus. A Watershed Moment: The Clean Water Act and Infant Health. 2021. |
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| 文件名称/大小 | 资源类型 | 版本类型 | 开放类型 | 使用许可 | ||
| w29152.pdf（581KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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