TY  - JOUR
AU  - Joyce,Theodore J.
AU  - Grossman,Michael
AU  - Goldman,Fred
TI  - An Assessment of the Benefits of Air Pollution Control:  The Case of Infant Health
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 1928
PY  - 1989
Y2  - June 1989
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w1928
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w1928.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Theodore J. Joyce
Baruch College & Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Ave, 5th Fl
New York, NY 10016-4309
Tel: 212/817-7960
Fax: 212/817-1597
E-Mail: theodore.joyce@baruch.cuny.edu

Michael Grossman
Ph.D. Program in Economics
City University of New York Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue, 5th Floor
New York, NY  10016-4309
Tel: 212/817-7959
Fax: 212/817-1597
E-Mail: mgrossman@gc.cuny.edu

Fred Goldman
10 West 66th Street, Apt 6A
New York, NY 10023
Tel: 212/595-7110
Fax: 212/579-2977
E-Mail: fred.goldman@gmail.com
AB  - This paper contains estimates of the impacts of air pollutants on race-specific neonatal mortality rates based on data for heavily populated counties of the U.S. in 1977. Unlike previous research in this area, these estimates are obtained from awell specified behavioral model of the production of health, which is estimated with the appropriate simultaneous equations techniques. The results suggest that sulfur dioxide is the dominant air pollutant in newborn survival outcomes. There is also evidence that an increase in sulfur dioxide raises the neonatal mortality rate by raising the percentage of low-birth weight births. Based on marginal-willingness-to-pay computations, we estimate that the benefits of a 10 percent reduction insulfur dioxide levels range between $54 million and $1.09 billion in 1977 dollars.
ER  -