Valuing health damages due to groundwater arsenic contamination in Bihar, India

Thakur, Basant Kumar; Gupta, Vijaya

doi:10.1016/j.ehb.2019.06.005

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“… See Caliendo and Kopeinig (2008),Imbens and Wooldridge (2009),Heinrich et al (2010), andKassie et al (2010) for recent reviews of the literature. 5 Our result is not directly comparable to those of eitherMahanta et al (2016) orThakur et al (2019) due to geographic and temporal dissimilarities.…”

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“…This study attempts to derive such an estimate of the costs involved. Studies like Khan (2007), Roy (2008), Mahanta et al (2016), and Thakur et al (2019) have measured the arsenic-affected households' willingness to pay for mitigation projects by estimating their losses from labour market participation and remedial medical expenditures. Additionally, affected households also experience losses due to the social discrimination they face.…”

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“…Additionally, affected households also experience losses due to the social discrimination they face. The methodologies adopted by Khan (2007), Roy (2008), Mahanta et al (2016), and Thakur et al (2019) overlook this dimension of income loss. The present paper attempts to fill this gap.…”

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“…This controls for labour market effects on the household income. 11 More recently,Mahanta et al (2016) andThakur et al (2019) as well.…”

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Revisiting Economic Costs of Arsenicosis

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Mukherjee²

2020

Ecol. Econ. Soc.

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The present paper uses the propensity score matching (PSM) method to calculate the economic loss of arsenicosis-affected households. In contrast to prior studies, whose estimates of income loss were limited to labour-market sources, the PSM method controls for labour market and other sources of income, as well as demographic and educational factors, to identify losses from social discrimination. It first establishes that arsenicosis-affected households are subject to social discrimination, and then shows that this leads to a significant loss of expenditure. Second, it proves that overlooking social discrimination leads to an underestimation of income loss. The results have important implications, both for understanding the plight of arsenicosis-affected households and for cost–benefit calculations in the adoption of policies for fighting arsenic contamination.

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“…This controls for labour market effects on the household income. 11 More recently,Mahanta et al (2016) andThakur et al (2019) as well.…”

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Revisiting Economic Costs of Arsenicosis

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Mukherjee²

2020

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“…Surprisingly, we found that out of 65 respondents, only 11 were aware of the NCAP and its initiative to tackle air pollution. Awareness can help people take appropriate steps to avert or mitigate negative externalities due to pollutants (Thakur and Gupta 2019). Only 16% of respondents agreed that such an awareness drive against air pollution in the past year was useful, and among those, only five (8% of all respondents) revealed knowledge of any community action or initiative to curb air pollution.…”

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