Valuing Health for Environmental Policy with Special Emphasis on
Children's Health Protection Proceedings of the Second Workshop in the Environmental
Policy and Economics Workshop Series
Summary
The purpose of the Environmental Policy and
Economics Workshop Series is to hold in-depth workshops on timely
topics that will further the use of economics as a tool for environmental
decision making. Both NSF/EPA grant recipients and researchers (from
EPA, fellow Federal agencies, academia, and others) will be invited
to attend and discuss their on-going research. Topics will be chosen
based on relevance to current EPA issues and, more broadly, to issues
of concern to the environmental economics community. These topics
include exploration of innovations in economic research methods as
well as how research will further environmental policy making and
future environmental economic studies.
This report represents the proceedings of
the second workshop of this series. This two-day workshop was dedicated
to exploring methods
for valuing morbidity and mortality risks, with the second day specially focused
on the unique considerations specific to children's health valuation. The four
sessions-"Valuing Mortality Risk," "Valuing Morbidity Risk," "How Do We Value
Children?," and "Household Production Models and Children's
Health Valuation" present current environmental economics research and policy
discussions concerning each topic. The Workshop included the following papers
(please scroll down for link to download proceedings):
Proceedings for Session 1, Wednesday, March 24,
1999 Introduction to Day
One
- Opening Remarks by David Gardiner, Assistant Administrator,
US EPA Office of
Policy. Session I: Valuing Mortality
Risks
- Introductory Remarks for Session I by Melonie Williams,
US EPA Office of Economy and
Environment.
- Evaluating the Effect of Visual Aids on Willingness-to-Pay
for a Reduction in Mortality Risk: Preliminary Results, by Phaedra S. Corso,
James K. Hammitt and John D. Graham. Presented by
Phaedra S. Corso.
- Mortality Risk for Environmental Policy, by Alan Krupnick,
Anna Alberini, Maureen Cropper, Nathalie Simon with Kenshi Itaoka and Makoto
Akai. Presented by Alan
Krupnick.
- Discussion of Corso, Hammitt and Graham paper by Lauraine
Chestnut, Stratus Consulting.
- Discussion of Krupnick, Alberini, Cropper and Simon paper
by
Steve Crutchfield, USDA Economic Research Service – Summarization.
- Policy Discussion for Session I by Melonie Williams,
US EPA Office of Economy and Environment.
- Question and Answer Period for Session
I.
Proceedings for Session Two, Wednesday, March 24,
1999 Session II: Valuing Morbidity Risks
- Introductory Remarks for Session II by Chris Dockins, US EPA Office
of
Economy and Environment.
- Valuing Reduced Risk for Households with Children or
the Retired, by William Schulze, Lauraine Chestnut, Timothy Mount, Weifeng Weng,
and Hong Kim. Presented by William
Schulze.
- Willingness to Pay for Air-Quality Related Health Improvements:
A Multiple-Format Stated-Preference Approach, by F. Reed Johnson, Melissa Ruby
and William Desvousges. Presented by F. Reed
Johnson.
- Discussion of Schulze, Chestnut, Mount, Weng and Kim
paper by Clark Nardinelli, US FDA Center for Food Safety and
Applied Nutrition.
- Discussion of Johnson, Ruby and Desvouges paper by
Fred Kuchler, USDA Economic Research Service – Summarization.
- Policy Discussion for Session II by Nick Bouwes, US
EPA Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics – Summarization.
- Question and Answer Period
for Session II.
Proceedings for Session 3, Thursday, March 25,
1999 Introduction to Day Two
- Opening Remarks by Norine Noonan, Assistant Administrator,
US EPA Office of
Research and Development.
- Opening Remarks by Ramona Trovato, Director, US EPA,
Office of Children's Health Protection – Summarization. Session III: How Do We
Value Children?
- Introductory Remarks for Session II by Ed Chu, US EPA
Office of Children's Health Protection – Summarization.
- Valuing a Statistical Child's Life: The Case of Bicycle
Helmets, by Robin R. Jenkins, Nicole Owens, and Lanelle Bembenek Wiggins. Presented
by Robin Jenkins.
- Discussion of Jenkins, Owens, and Wiggins paper by Mark Dickie, University
of Southern Mississippi – Summarization.
- Valuing Children's Health and Life: What Does Economic Theory Say about
Including Parental and Societal Willingness to Pay? by William T. Harbaugh. Presented
by William T. Harbaugh.
- Contingent Valuation and Valuing Children's Health,
by George Tolley and Robert Fabian.
Presented by George Tolley.
- Question and
Answer Period for Session III.
Proceedings for Session Four, Thursday, March 25,
1999 Session IV: Household Production Models and Children's
Health Valuation
- Household Environmental Protection and the Intergenerational
Transmission of Human Captial, by Thomas D. Crocker and Mark D. Agee. Presented
by Thomas D. Crocker.
- Willingness to Pay for Reductions in Infertility Risks:
A Contingent Valuation Study, by George van Houtven and V. Kerry Smith. Presented
by George van Houtven.
- Willingness to Pay for Children's Health: A Household Production
Approach, by Mark Dickie. Presented by Mark Dickie.
- Discussion of Crocker and Agee paper by Jane Hall, California
State University, Fullerton.
- Discussion of van Houtven and Smith paper by John Horowitz,
University of
Maryland – Summarization.
- Discussion of Dickie paper by Jason Shogren, University
of Wyoming – Summarization
- Policy Discussion of Session IV by Robin Jenkins, US
EPA Office of Economy and Environment – Summarization.
- Question and Answer Period
for Session IV. Workshop
Wrap-up
- Concluding Remarks by Jane Hall, California State University,
Fullerton.
- Concluding Remarks by Trudy Cameron, University of California at Los
Angeles.
