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DOI10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.11.009
Hidden Costs of Blight and Arson in Detroit: Evidence From a Natural Experiment in Devil's Night
Zahran, Sammy1,3; Iverson, Terrence1,3; McElmurry, Shawn P.2; Weiler, Stephan1; Levitt, Ryan1,3
2019-03-01
发表期刊ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS
ISSN0921-8009
EISSN1873-6106
出版年2019
卷号157页码:266-277
文章类型Article
语种英语
国家USA
英文摘要

About one-fifth of the total housing stock in Detroit, Michigan is vacant, blighted or abandoned. Abandoned homes are particularly vulnerable to arson, with an estimated 20 such structures set ablaze each day. In 2011 the Fire Commissioner of Detroit announced a policy of fire non-suppression for abandoned structures. The policy is referred to as "Let it Burn." While such a policy has the merit of focusing scarce firefighting resources on situations in which people's lives are immediately at risk, we show that the policy exposes residents city-wide to various hazardous inorganic gases (CO, SO2, and NO2) released in uncontrolled fire events. By exploiting an annual tradition in Detroit called Devil's Night, we overcome a measurement problem involving the statistical attribution of changes in city-wide air quality due to fire emissions, and we conservatively estimate per burn pollutant externality costs from inorganic gas releases that include health damages in excess mortality and hospitalization for circulatory conditions in elderly populations. The estimated present value health burden for elderly residents of Detroit due to cardiovascular complications resulting from arson-related emissions of CO is greater than $300 million dollars. Since this is only a subset of the total social costs attributable to arson, the results suggest that a large scale blight reduction program might be socially efficient. Building on our empirical findings, we argue that the dilemma facing Detroit has the structure of a classic poverty trap. The corresponding insights may be relevant for other so-called rust belt cities grappling with the ecological economics of depopulation, housing abandonment, and arson.


英文关键词Arson Blight Poverty trap Detroit Inorganic gases Health
领域资源环境
收录类别SCI-E ; SSCI
WOS记录号WOS:000456899800025
WOS关键词AIR-POLLUTION ; CARDIOVASCULAR-DISEASE ; TIME-SERIES ; COMMUNITY CHARACTERISTICS ; FIRE EMISSIONS ; URBAN FORM ; BLOOD LEAD ; SOIL LEAD ; EXPOSURE ; MORTALITY
WOS类目Ecology ; Economics ; Environmental Sciences ; Environmental Studies
WOS研究方向Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Business & Economics
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条目标识符http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/15813
专题资源环境科学
作者单位1.Colorado State Univ, Dept Econ, C325 Clark Bldg, Ft Collins, CO 80523 USA;
2.Wayne State Univ, Dept Civil & Environm Engn, Detroit, MI USA;
3.Mt Data Grp, 115 N Coll Ave Suite 220, Ft Collins, CO 80524 USA
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Zahran, Sammy,Iverson, Terrence,McElmurry, Shawn P.,et al. Hidden Costs of Blight and Arson in Detroit: Evidence From a Natural Experiment in Devil's Night[J]. ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS,2019,157:266-277.
APA Zahran, Sammy,Iverson, Terrence,McElmurry, Shawn P.,Weiler, Stephan,&Levitt, Ryan.(2019).Hidden Costs of Blight and Arson in Detroit: Evidence From a Natural Experiment in Devil's Night.ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS,157,266-277.
MLA Zahran, Sammy,et al."Hidden Costs of Blight and Arson in Detroit: Evidence From a Natural Experiment in Devil's Night".ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS 157(2019):266-277.
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