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An Empirical Study of Indoor Air Pollution in Developing Economies: Microeconometric Studies

Research Project

Project/Area Number 16K13364
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Research Field Economic policy
Research InstitutionWaseda University

Principal Investigator

Arimura Toshihide  早稲田大学, 政治経済学術院, 教授 (70327865)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) 片山 東  早稲田大学, 商学学術院, 教授 (00595746)
作道 真理  一般財団法人日本経済研究所, 調査局, 研究員(移行) (70748954)
Research Collaborator Ngawang Dendup  
Mriduchhanda Chattopadhyay  
Project Period (FY) 2016-04-01 – 2019-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2018)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,380,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥780,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Keywords室内空気汚染 / 発展途上国 / 薪炭材 / クリーンエネルギー / 健康被害 / ミクロ計量分析 / ブータン / インド / 調理 / 農村 / ミクロデータ / 主観確率 / 情報 / 家計のエネルギー選択 / 操作変数 / 主観的確率 / 健康 / 室内大気汚染 / クリーン・エネルギー / 構造推定 / ピア効果 / 情報提供 / 経済政策 / 環境経済学 / 環境と開発
Outline of Final Research Achievements

To deal with indoor air pollution (IAP) in developing economies, we investigate factors influencing clean fuel choice using data sets from Bhutan and India. For Bhutan, we use a rural subsample of nationally representative data from the 2012 Bhutan Living Standard Survey (BLSS). We estimate a bivariate probit model to control for the potentially endogenous information variable. The results indicate that households that have access to information are approximately 39% more likely to adopt clean cooking fuel.
For Indian Data set, we examine the influence of individuals’ subjective probabilistic expectations about health risks related to IAP on their cooking fuel usage patterns. We also explore how these patterns, in turn, affect their health status. Collecting the information on expectations from 557 rural Indian households, we find that subjective probabilistic expectations of becoming sick from dirty fuel usage have some influence on dirty fuel usage.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

発展途上国の農村部ではバイオマスの固形燃料(薪炭材等)に頼っており、室内空気汚染による深刻な健康被害を引き起こしている。この問題はクリーン燃料(電気、LPG、高効率かまど)への転換で解決可能であるが、その促進が進まない。アジアでも、ブータンやインドでも課題となっている。ブータンでのデータを用いた分析により、テレビを通じた情報提供が、薪炭材利用がもたらす健康被害に関する知識の普及が、クリーンエネルギーを促進する可能性を示した。これは室内空気汚染問題解決の一つの方向性を示すものであり、社会的な意義があると考えられる。

Report

(5 results)
  • 2018 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2017 Research-status Report
  • 2016 Research-status Report
  • Products Report
  • Research Products

    (13 results)

All 2021 2019 2018 2017 Other

All Int'l Joint Research (1 results) Journal Article (4 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results,  Peer Reviewed: 3 results,  Open Access: 4 results) Presentation (7 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 4 results) Remarks (1 results)

  • [Int'l Joint Research] Ateneo De Manila University(フィリピン)

    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Subjective probabilistic expectations, household air pollution, and health : Evidence from cooking fuel use pattems in West Bengal, India.2021

    • Author(s)
      Mriduchhanda Chattopadhyay, Toshi H. Arimura, Hajime Katayama, Mari Sakudo, and Hide-Fumi Yokoo
    • Journal Title

      Resource and Energy Economics

      Volume: 66 Pages: 101262-101262

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.reseneeco.2021.101262

    • Related Report
      Products Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Information leverage: The adoption of clean cooking fuel in Bhutan2019

    • Author(s)
      Ngawang Dendup and Toshi H. Arimura
    • Journal Title

      Energy Policy

      Volume: 125 Pages: 181-195

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.enpol.2018.10.054

    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Information Leverage: The Adoption of Clean Cooking Fuel in Bhutan2018

    • Author(s)
      Ngawang Dendup and Toshi H. Arimura
    • Journal Title

      Discussion Paper Series, Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University

      Volume: 1801 Pages: 1-22

    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Cooking Fuel Choices—Analysis of Socio-economic and Demographic Factors in Rural India—2017

    • Author(s)
      Mriduchhanda Chattopadhyay, Toshi.H. Arimura, Hajime Katayama, Mari Sakudo and Hide-Fumi Yokoo
    • Journal Title

      ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

      Volume: 30 Issue: 2 Pages: 131-140

    • DOI

      10.11353/sesj.30.131

    • NAID

      130005519633

    • ISSN
      0915-0048, 1884-5029
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Presentation] Subjective Probabilistic Expectations, Indoor Air Pollution and Health: Evidence from cooking fuel use pattern in India2018

    • Author(s)
      Mriduchhanda Chattopadhyay
    • Organizer
      2018 Annual Conference of Taiwan Association of Environmental and Resource Economics
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Willingness to pay for lowering the risk from dirty cooking energy: A case study of rural Indian households2018

    • Author(s)
      Mriduchhanda Chattopadhyay
    • Organizer
      18th Annual Conference of Science Council of Asia, Science Council of Japan
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Subjective Probabilistic Expectations, Indoor Air Pollution and Health: Evidence from cooking fuel use pattern in India2018

    • Author(s)
      Mriduchhanda Chattopadhyay
    • Organizer
      1st Asian Workshop on Econometrics and Health Economics
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Information Leverage: Adoption of Clean Cooking Fuel in Bhutan2018

    • Author(s)
      Ngawang Dendup
    • Organizer
      CPPE Annual Conference, Waseda University
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Subjective probabilistic expectations, Indoor Air Pollution and Health: Evidence from cooking fuel use pattern in India2018

    • Author(s)
      Mriduchhanda Chattopadhy
    • Organizer
      CPPE Annual Conference, Waseda University
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Subjective probabilistic expectations, Indoor Air Pollution and Health: Evidence from cooking fuel use Pattern in India2017

    • Author(s)
      Mriduchhanda Chattopadhyay
    • Organizer
      環境経済・政策学会2017年大会
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Information Leverage: Adoption of Clean Cooking Fuel and Diffusion of Cooking Appliances in Bhutan2017

    • Author(s)
      Ngawang Dendup
    • Organizer
      Japanese Economic Policy Association 2017
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Remarks] 早稲田大学環境経済経営研究所

    • URL

      http://www.waseda.jp/prj-rieem/

    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2016-04-21   Modified: 2023-03-30  

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