Income Impact on Health and Heterogeneous Environmental Willingness to Pay

DOI

10.2991/ssphe-18.2019.92How to use a DOI?

Keywords

household income, air pollution, health welfare, environmental willingness to pay (WTP)

Abstract

This paper employs comprehensive Chinese data to investigate whether household income growth contributes to alleviate health impairment caused by air pollution. Using an ordered multivariate Logit model, the paper finds that the growth of household income plays an important role in relieving health damage caused by air pollution, and the alleviation is largely dependent on residents’ environmental willingness to pay (WTP). Empirical results also suggest that those with better educational background are more inclined to transform household income into health welfare.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Zhengge Tu
AU  - Tianyang Hu
AU  - Maoyu Zhang
PY  - 2019/01
DA  - 2019/01
TI  - Income Impact on Health and Heterogeneous Environmental Willingness to Pay
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Social Science, Public Health and Education (SSPHE 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 403
EP  - 408
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/ssphe-18.2019.92
DO  - 10.2991/ssphe-18.2019.92
ID  - Tu2019/01
ER  -