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

Usha Gupta ()

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Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Kanpur; Air Pollution; Health Damages; Mitigating Activities; Health-diary; Panel Data; Health Production Function; environment; Economics; Environmental Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-10
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