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dc.contributor.authorSaari, Rebecca Kaarina
dc.contributor.authorSelin, Noelle E.
dc.contributor.authorRausch, Sebastian
dc.contributor.authorThompson, Tammy M.
dc.date.accessioned2016-08-25T18:05:37Z
dc.date.available2016-08-25T18:05:37Z
dc.date.issued2014-10
dc.date.submitted2014-05
dc.identifier.issn1096-2247
dc.identifier.issn2162-2906
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/103986
dc.description.abstractAir quality co-benefits can potentially reduce the costs of greenhouse gas mitigation. However, whereas many studies of the cost of greenhouse gas mitigation model the macroeconomic welfare impacts of mitigation, most studies of air quality co-benefits do not. We employ a U.S. computable general equilibrium economic model previously linked to an air quality modeling system and enhance it to represent the economy-wide welfare impacts of fine particulate matter. We present a first application of this method to explore the efficiency and distributional implications of a Clean Energy Standard (CES) and a Cap and Trade (CAT) program that both reduce CO[subscript 2] emissions by 10% in 2030 relative to 2006. We find that co-benefits from fine particulate matter reduction (median $6; $2 to $10/tCO[subscript 2]) completely offset policy costs by 110% (40% to 190%), transforming the net welfare impact of the CAT into a gain of $1 (−$5 to $7) billion 2005$. For the CES, the corresponding co-benefit (median $8; $3 to $14/tCO[subscript 2]) is a smaller fraction (median 5%; 2% to 9%) of its higher policy cost. The eastern United States garners 78% and 71% of co-benefits for the CES and CAT, respectively. By representing the effects of pollution-related morbidities and mortalities as an impact to labor and the demand for health services, we find that the welfare impact per unit of reduced pollution varies by region. These interregional differences can enhance the preference of some regions, such as Texas, for a CAT over a CES, or switch the calculation of which policy yields higher co-benefits, compared with an approach that uses one valuation for all regions. This framework could be applied to quantify consistent air quality impacts of other pricing instruments, subnational trading programs, or green tax swaps.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipUnited States. Environmental Protection Agency (Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program (no. R834279))en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipMassachusetts Institute of Technology (Leading Technology Policy Initiative (LTP))en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipUnited States. Dept. of Energy. Office of Basic Energy Sciences (grant DE-FG02-94ER61937)en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipMassachusetts Institute of Technology (Martin Family Society Fellowship)en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Joint Program on the Science & Policy of Global Changeen_US
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10962247.2014.959139en_US
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alikeen_US
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/en_US
dc.sourceMIT web domainen_US
dc.titleA self-consistent method to assess air quality co-benefits from U.S. climate policiesen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.citationSaari, Rebecca K., Noelle E. Selin, Sebastian Rausch, and Tammy M. Thompson. “A Self-Consistent Method to Assess Air Quality Co-Benefits from U.S. Climate Policies.” Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association 65, no. 1 (December 20, 2014): 74–89.en_US
dc.contributor.departmentMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Global Change Scienceen_US
dc.contributor.departmentMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Divisionen_US
dc.contributor.mitauthorSaari, Rebecca Kaarinaen_US
dc.contributor.mitauthorSelin, Noelle E.en_US
dc.relation.journalJournal of the Air & Waste Management Associationen_US
dc.eprint.versionOriginal manuscripten_US
dc.type.urihttp://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticleen_US
eprint.statushttp://purl.org/eprint/status/NonPeerRevieweden_US
dspace.embargo.termsNen_US
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6396-5622
mit.licenseOPEN_ACCESS_POLICYen_US


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