Health damages from air pollution in China.
By Kira J. M. Matus, Na Kyungmin, Noelle E. Selin, L. Lamsal, J. Reilly, S. Paltsev. 2012
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A B S T R A C T This study evaluates air pollution-related health impacts on the Chinese economy by using an expanded version of the Emissions Prediction and Policy Analysis model. We estimated that marginal welfare impact to the Chinese economy of ozone and particulate-matter concentrations above background levels increased from 1997 US$22 billion in 1975 to 1997 US$112 billion in 2005, despite improvements in overall air quality. This increase is a result of the growing urban population and rising wages that thus increased the value of lost labor and leisure. In relative terms, however, welfare losses from air pollution decreased from 14% of the historical welfare level to 5% during the same period because the total size of the economy grew much faster than the absolute air pollution damages. In addition, we estimated that particulate-matter pollution alone led to a gross domestic product loss of 1997 US$64 billion in 1995. Given that the World Bank’s comparable estimate drawn from a static approach was only 1997 US$34 billion, this result suggests that conventional static methods neglecting the cumulative impact of pollution-caused welfare damage are likely to underestimate pollution-health costs substantially. However, our analysis of uncertainty involved in exposure–response functions suggests that our central estimates are susceptible to significantly large error bars of around � 80%.
Subfields: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
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Citations in the corpus
- Highway toll and air pollution: evidence from Chinese cities (2017, background): “5 were estimated to be $112 billion (in 1997 US dollar) (Matus et al., 2012).”
- Ozone pollution in China: A review of concentrations, meteorological influences, chemical precursors, and effects. (2017, unknown): “Throughout China, the financial burden of air pollution in terms of medical expenses and wage and leisure loss is seven times higher for particulate matter than for ozone (Matus et al., 2012).”
- The energy and CO2 emissions impact of renewable energy development in China (2014, background): “The cost of environmental pollution was estimated to exceed 4% of the country's GDP between 1995 and 2003 (The World Bank and China Ministry of Environmental Protection, 2007; Matus et al., 2012).”
- How harmful is air pollution to economic development? New evidence from PM2.5 concentrations of Chinese cities (2018, background): “…also has serious negative impacts on the sustainable development of China's economy.4 Some recent studies have evaluated the health damage and corresponding economic costs of air pollution in China (Zhang et al., 2007; Hou et al., 2010; Huang et al., 2012; Matus et al., 2012; Chen et al., 2017).”
- Using the geographical detector technique to explore the impact of socioeconomic factors on PM2.5 concentrations in China (2019, background): “These problems are more prominent in China due to rapid urbanization and industrialization (Matus et al., 2012), which results in mass population migration and increasing energy consumption (Lyu et al.”
- The effect of Beijing’s driving restrictions on pollution and economic activity (2015, background): “Matus et al. (2011) estimate that the 2005 cost of suspended particulates for China in total was $22.4 billion (in 1997 USD). Beyond these economic costs, air pollution has been linked to infant mortality (Ch and Greenstone (2003) specifically for suspended particulates and Currie and Neid (2005) fo”
- Green Growth and the Efficient Use of Natural Resources (2012, background): “Here Matus et al. (2007, 2012) and Nam et al. (2010) have analyzed the economic damage from air pollution in the US, Europe, and China for the period from about 1970 to 2000 to 2005.”
- Air Quality and Manufacturing Firm Productivity: Comprehensive Evidence from China (2017, unknown): “Our estimates complement the literature that estimates the social costs of reduced health due to China’s air pollution (Ostro, 1983; Matus et al., 2012; Chen et al., 2013a; Bombardini and Li, 2016; He, Fan et al., 2016).”
- Synergy between pollution and carbon emissions control: Comparing China and the United States (2014, background): “For the electric power sector, it calls for a reduction of 8% in SO2 and of 10% in NOx (which was regulated under the FYP12 for the first time) (Li, 2011).”