【主 题】The Welfare Effects of Air Pollution on Outdoor Recreation: An Application to Shoreline Fishing Along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts
【报告人】Roger H. von Haefen（教授，美国北卡罗来纳州立大学）
【时 间】2023年12月15日周五09:30-10:30
【地 点】高等研究院232会议室
【语 言】英文
【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.
【报告人简介】Roger H. von Haefen is a Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics and the Associate Director of the Center for Environmental and Resource Economics Policy (CEnREP) at North Carolina State University. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Duke University and a B.A. in Economics from the University of Notre Dame. Dr. von Haefen’s research and teaching programs focus on environmental and resource economics, with special emphasis on applying tools from benefit-cost analysis and non-market valuation to water, coastal and transport issues. He is currently the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.
