讲座题目：The Welfare Effects of Air Pollution on Outdoor Recreation: An Application to Shoreline Fishing Along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts

主 讲 人：Roger H. von Haefen（美国北卡罗来纳州立大学 教授）

时    间：2024年5月14日 9:30-11:00

地    点：经管学院院楼211会议室

摘    要：

Driven by tighter federal PM2.5 standards and cleaner fuel requirements for maritime shipping, the past two decades have seen dramatic improvements in air quality in coastal areas throughout the United States.  However, the implications of these improvements for outdoor recreation, a large and growing sector of many coastal economies, remain poorly understood. Leveraging one of the largest outdoor recreation data sets ever assembled, we investigate how changes in air pollution along the East and Gulf Coasts impacted shoreline recreational fishing from 2004 to 2018. Using a linked model of angler participation and site choice, our findings suggest a robustly negative and statistically significant relationship between PM2.5 and shoreline recreational fishing. These estimates translate into relatively large welfare gains from the improvements in air pollution experienced in recent years. Further, our results reveal substantial spatial heterogeneity across the U.S., with anglers in the Southeast and New England/Mid-Atlantic regions deriving the highest economic values. Sensitivity analyses demonstrate our estimates at the baseline level are robust to changes in income effects, nonlinear air pollution effects, and alternative distributional assumptions.

主讲人介绍：

Roger H. von Haefen，北卡罗莱纳州立大学农业与资源经济学系教授、环境与资源经济政策中心联合副主任，资源与环境经济学顶级期刊JEEM联合主编。长期在环境与资源经济学、应用经济学领域开展研究工作，主要从事环境价值评估研究，他的研究为美国国家环境保护局、国家交通安全管理局等多个主管部门开展自然资源损害价值评估、政策评估等工作提供支持。在JEEM、 Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists、American Economics Review、Journal of Business of Economic Statistics、American Economic Journal: Economic Policy等重要刊物上发表多篇论文。

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