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The Costs of Air Quality Deterioration and Benefits of Air Pollution Control: Estimates of Mortality Costs for Two Pollutants in 40 US. Metropolitan Areas

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. Although it is still impossible to place a dollar value on human lives and on the total health effeets of air pollution, the excessive mortality costs of two air pollutants–sulfur dioxide (SO2 and total suspended particulates (TSP)‐have been quantified for most of the 40 Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas in the United States. Based on 1970 data, total mortality damage for SO2 was estimated at $887 million and for TSP at $1.044 billion. The benefit from reducing these pollutants could exceed $1.328 billion annually, a figure useful in evaluating control costs.

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  • Ben‐Chieh Liu, 1979. "The Costs of Air Quality Deterioration and Benefits of Air Pollution Control: Estimates of Mortality Costs for Two Pollutants in 40 US. Metropolitan Areas," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 38(2), pages 187-195, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ajecsc:v:38:y:1979:i:2:p:187-195
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1536-7150.1979.tb02879.x
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    1. Rajindar Koshal & Manjulika Koshal, 1974. "Air pollution and the respiratory disease mortality in the United States—a quantitative study," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 1(3), pages 263-278, December.
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