【Topic】Willingness to Pay for Mortality Risk Reductions in Shanghai and Chongqing

【Speaker】Alan Krupnick

【Time】1:30-3:00pm, October 31

【Venue】Wushunde Building 302 conference room (School of Public Policy, Tsinghua)

【Language】Chinese/English

【Organizer】*【Target Audience】Joint Seminar (Department of Economics, SEM; CIDEG)

【Background Information】

Dr. Krupnick is the Director of Quality of the Environment Division at Resource for the Future (RFF). He holds a Ph.D. of economics fromUniversityofMarylandin 1980. Dr. Krupnick's research focuses on analyzing environmental issues, in particular, the benefits, costs, and design of air pollution policies, both in theUnited Statesand in developing countries. His research also addresses the valuation of health and ecological improvements and, more recently, the ancillary benefits of climate policy and urban transportation and development problems.

Dr. Krupnick has served as a consultant to state governments, federal agencies, private corporations, the Canadian government, the European Union, the World Health Organization, and the World Bank. He cochaired an advisory committee that counseled the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on new ozone and particulate standards. Krupnick also served as senior economist on the President's Council of Economic Advisers, advising theClintonadministration on environmental and natural resource policy issues. He is a regular member of expert committees from the National Academy of Sciences and has served on a Royal Society of Canada committee analyzing ambient air quality standard setting inCanada.

Dr. Krupnick’s website:http://www.rff.org/Krupnick.cfm