The missing piece: Valuing averting behavior for children's ozone exposures

Resource and Energy Economics

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 215-228

  Mansfield, Carol ^a   Reed Johnson, F ^a   Van Houtven, George ^a  

^a RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Air quality index; Children's environmental health; Cost of illness; Hierarchical Bayes; Mixed logit; Revealed preference

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; OZONE; STATISTICAL METHODS;

AIR QUALITY INDEX; HIERARCHICAL BAYES; MIXED LOGIT; REVEALED PREFERENCE;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; AVOIDANCE REACTION; CHILD HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; OZONE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

EID: 33746686394     PISSN: 09287655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.reseneeco.2006.02.002     Document Type: Article

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