The health benefits of air pollution control in India

Cropper, Maureen; Park, Yongjoon

doi:10.1007/s41775-022-00149-6

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“…From the methodological perspective, there is a bunch of literature that tries to address the pathways between air pollution and morbidity episodes. Cropper (1981) presented a health production function framework by using a damage function approach to estimate the effect of air pollution. Gerking and Stanley (1986) provided a theoretical underpinning related to the health-based choice model, for the determination of marginal willingness to pay for improved air quality.…”

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Respiratory Health and Air Pollution in Opencast Coal Mining Region: A Study in Mahanadi Coalfield, Odisha, India

Chowdhury,

Paul

2024

The Indian Economic Journal

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The present study is based on the remote opencast coal mining region of a mineral-rich Indian state, Odisha. Our estimation confirms our primary hypothesis that proximity to opencast mining, triggers the likelihood of respiratory illness (RI). Moreover, our investigation affirms the presence of selection bias possibly due to underreporting in the self-reported RI episodes. We try to address the above causality through the pathways of both exogeneity and endogeneity of RI. After controlling for the endogeneity of RI episodes, it is evident that the effect of RI reporting on related health expenditure is grossly overestimated under the assumption of exogeneity. In the regressions, the variable of prime importance, that is, the distance from mine, treatment dummy and per capita income are statistically significant, indicating the high likelihood of RI episodes in closer proximity to the mining region, in the treatment villages over control villages. The positive significance of per capita income also supports the presence of selection bias possibly associated with self-reported RI episodes. Both estimation methods indicate that the proximity to the pollution source increases the health expenditure on RI. For treatment villages, a higher distance to healthcare facilities reduces health expenditure. The pollution load and healthcare inaccessibility are implicated through a latent burden of disease which warrants a serious policy intervention towards partial correction of the externalities for achieving sustainable and equitable development. JEL Codes: C36, I15, Q53

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Respiratory Health and Air Pollution in Opencast Coal Mining Region: A Study in Mahanadi Coalfield, Odisha, India

Chowdhury,

Paul

2024

The Indian Economic Journal

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“…In general, land circulation out can reduce farmers' time on agricultural production, reduce the harm to health from chemicals such as pesticides, and decrease the depreciation rate. Therefore, the health depreciation rate is expressed as in Cropper [37]:…”

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Can Land Circulation Improve the Health of Middle-Aged and Older Farmers in China?

Liu

et al. 2023

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Compared with the urban aging population, the rural aging population in China is larger, and is subject to a lower per capita income, lower social security coverage, and insufficient security capacity. Therefore, ensuring the health of middle-aged and older farmers is an inevitable requirement for maintaining the stability of rural areas and society. This study uses data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Survey (CHARLS) 2018, an ordered probit model and instrumental variable approach to empirically analyze the effect of land circulation out on the physical health of middle-aged and older farmers over 45. The results indicate that land circulation out positively and significantly affects farmers’ health. Again, farmer’s non-agricultural work and household income play a significant role in this positive relationship between land circulation out and farmers’ health. Thus, the promotion of non-agricultural work for farmers and household income enhancement could alleviate household budget constraints while increasing health investment. The findings provide policies advocating for rural health development from land circulation perspectives.

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“…Trade openness also affects population health through environmental pollution. Previous studies have assumed that individuals could enhance their resistance to acute diseases by increasing the stock of health capital, and introduced air pollution as an important parameter influencing the rate of health capital depreciation into Grossman's health demand theory, for re-building a theoretical analysis framework of population health including environmental pollution factors (Cropper, 1981) [34]. Environmental pollution would accelerate the depreciation rate of individual residents' health, which has a direct negative impact on it.…”

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A Study of the Effect of Trade Openness on Population Health: Empirical Evidence from China

Ou,

Zheng,

Zhang

2023

Sustainability

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Currently, the international economy is experiencing profound and intricate transformations, while economic globalization is encountering unprecedented challenges and witnessing a surge in counter-globalization sentiments. Critics express concerns over the potential detrimental effects of trade liberalization on the welfare of low-income groups, particularly in developing countries. China, as the largest developing country, also holds the status of a major trading nation. Using panel data from 285 prefecture-level cities across China during 2000–2019, this study examines how trade openness affects population health to assess the welfare effects of trade openness, providing new theoretical perspectives and empirical evidence to further promote economic globalization and improve human health and well-being. The results show that trade openness can significantly promote population health. And, a series of robustness tests show that the above conclusion is still valid. Trade openness has a greater positive impact on the health of the population of the eastern and central regions, the coastal cities, and high-trade-openness cities. An analysis of the mechanism reveal that trade openness mainly promotes population health through channels such as labor employment, wage income, public health investment, and personal health investment. However, trade openness can also lead to environmental pollution, which has a significant negative impact on population health. Additionally, through threshold effects analysis, it becomes evident that the relationship between trade openness and population health is nonlinear. This implies that there are critical thresholds related to the economic development stage, investment in environmental governance, and environmental infrastructure construction. Falling below or exceeding these thresholds may lead to different interval effects on the impact of trade openness on population health.

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The health benefits of air pollution control in India

Cited by 12 publications

References 11 publications

Respiratory Health and Air Pollution in Opencast Coal Mining Region: A Study in Mahanadi Coalfield, Odisha, India

Respiratory Health and Air Pollution in Opencast Coal Mining Region: A Study in Mahanadi Coalfield, Odisha, India

Can Land Circulation Improve the Health of Middle-Aged and Older Farmers in China?

A Study of the Effect of Trade Openness on Population Health: Empirical Evidence from China

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