The Dynamics of Evasion: The Price Cap on Russian Oil Exports and the Amassing of the Shadow Fleet

SSRN Electronic Journal · 2025-01-01 · 5 citations

The economic value of reducing mortality due to noncommunicable diseases and injuries

Nature Medicine · 2024-09-27 · 17 citations

With population aging, national health systems face difficult trade-offs in allocating resources. The World Bank launched the Healthy Longevity Initiative to generate evidence for investing in policies that can improve healthy longevity and human capital. As part of this initiative, we quantified the economic value of reducing avoidable mortality from major noncommunicable diseases and injuries. We estimated avoidable mortality-the difference between lowest-achieved mortality frontiers and projected mortality trajectories-for each cause of death, for 2000, 2019 and 2050, and for geographic regions, with high-income countries, India and China considered separately; we applied economic values to these estimates. The economic value of reducing cardiovascular disease avoidable mortality would be large for both sexes in all regions, reaching 2-8% of annual income in 2019. For cancers, it would be 5-6% of annual income in high-income countries and China, and for injuries, it would be around 5% in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean. Despite the large uncertainty surrounding our estimates, we offer economic values for reducing avoidable mortality by cause and metrics comparable to annual incomes, which enable multisectoral priority setting and are relevant for high-level policy discussions around budget and resource allocations.

The economic value of reducing avoidable mortality

Nature Medicine · 2024-09-27 · 12 citations

Calculating the economic value of non-marginal mortality risk reductions

Economics Letters · 2024-03-21 · 3 citations

Environmental Awareness Project “Sustainable Fun"

SCIÉNDO · 2024-12-30

La investigación sobre el proyecto "Diversión Sostenible" se enfocó en promover conductas ambientales entre los niños de la ONG Hilo Rojo. Se utilizó una metodología que incluyó entrevistas semiestructuradas como técnica de recolección de datos y un diseño de muestreo aleatorio simple. Los resultados mostraron un impacto positivo en el aprendizaje y la adopción de comportamientos sostenibles entre los niños participantes. La mayoría destacó haber aprendido sobre la importancia del reciclaje, y un alto porcentaje comenzó a tomar acciones concretas para cuidar el medio ambiente después de participar en el proyecto. Además, expresaron un mayor interés en plantar árboles y reciclar más en el futuro. En conclusión, el proyecto ha demostrado ser una herramienta efectiva para promover la conciencia ambiental y las prácticas sostenibles entre los niños, resaltando la importancia de continuar desarrollando iniciativas similares para fortalecer su compromiso con la conservación del medio ambiente y su papel como agentes de cambio hacia un futuro más sostenible.

Spatial Heterogeneity in Hedonic Price Effects for Lake Water Quality

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2023-07-17

This database provides model results, elasticity estimates, and descriptive statistics for output from Spatial Heterogeneity in Hedonic Price Effects for Lake Water Quality manuscript. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/le.100.1.102122-0086R

Valuing Non-marginal Mortality Risk Reductions

SSRN Electronic Journal · 2023-01-01

Valuing water quality in the United States using a national dataset on property values

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2023-04-03 · 27 citations

High-quality water resources provide a wide range of benefits, but the value of water quality is often not fully represented in environmental policy decisions, due in large part to an absence of water quality valuation estimates at large, policy relevant scales. Using data on property values with nationwide coverage across the contiguous United States, we estimate the benefits of lake water quality as measured through capitalization in housing markets. We find compelling evidence that homeowners place a premium on improved water quality. This premium is largest for lakefront property and decays with distance from the waterbody. In aggregate, we estimate that 10% improvement of water quality for the contiguous United States has a value of $6 to 9 billion to property owners. This study provides credible evidence for policymakers to incorporate lake water quality value estimates in environmental decision-making.

Spatial Heterogeneity in Hedonic Price Effects for Lake Water Quality

Land Economics · 2023-07-13 · 5 citations

This study uses Zillow's ZTRAX property transaction database to investigate variation in hedonic price effects of water clarity on single-family houses throughout the United States. We consider five spatial scales and estimate models using different sample selection criteria and model specifications. Our results indicate considerable spatial heterogeneity both within and across the four U.S. Census regions. However, we also find heterogeneity resulting from different types of investigator decisions, including sample selection and modelling choices. Thus, it is necessary to use practical knowledge to consider the limits of market areas and to investigate the robustness of estimation results to investigator choices. (JEL Q51).

Spatial Heterogeneity in Hedonic Price Effects for Lake Water Quality

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2023-07-17

This database provides model results, elasticity estimates, and descriptive statistics for output from Spatial Heterogeneity in Hedonic Price Effects for Lake Water Quality manuscript. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/le.100.1.102122-0086R