Maureen Cropper

About

Maureen Cropper is a Distinguished University Professor with a background in economics, holding a B.A. from Bryn Mawr College (summa cum laude, 1969) and a Ph.D. from Cornell University (1973). She is a Senior Fellow at Resources for the Future and a former Lead Economist at the World Bank. Dr. Cropper has served as chair of the EPA Science Advisory Board Environmental Economics Advisory Committee and as past president of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her research focuses on valuing environmental amenities, especially environmental health effects, the discounting of future health benefits, and the tradeoffs implicit in environmental regulations. Her current work includes analyzing the costs and benefits of air pollution control in India, the health effects of plastics, and the benefits of urban transportation infrastructure. Throughout her career, she has contributed significantly to environmental and resource economics, emphasizing the economic valuation of environmental health impacts and policy analysis.

Research topics

• Environmental health
• Medicine
• Computer Science
• Economics
• Political Science
• Environmental science
• Environmental protection
• Neoclassical economics
• Meteorology
• Geography

Selected publications

• Pollution and health: a progress update

  The Lancet Planetary Health · 2022 · 1961 citations

  The Lancet Commission on pollution and health reported that pollution was responsible for 9 million premature deaths in 2015, making it the world's largest environmental risk factor for disease and premature death. We have now updated this estimate using data from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuriaes, and Risk Factors Study 2019. We find that pollution remains responsible for approximately 9 million deaths per year, corresponding to one in six deaths worldwide. Reductions have occurred in th…

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• Health and economic impact of air pollution in the states of India: the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

  The Lancet Planetary Health · 2020 · 689 citations

  BACKGROUND: The association of air pollution with multiple adverse health outcomes is becoming well established, but its negative economic impact is less well appreciated. It is important to elucidate this impact for the states of India. METHODS: We estimated exposure to ambient particulate matter pollution, household air pollution, and ambient ozone pollution, and their attributable deaths and disability-adjusted life-years in every state of India as part of the Global Burden of Disease Study (…

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• The Minderoo-Monaco Commission on Plastics and Human Health

  Annals of Global Health · 2023 · 412 citations

  Background: Plastics have conveyed great benefits to humanity and made possible some of the most significant advances of modern civilization in fields as diverse as medicine, electronics, aerospace, construction, food packaging, and sports. It is now clear, however, that plastics are also responsible for significant harms to human health, the economy, and the earth's environment. These harms occur at every stage of the plastic life cycle, from extraction of the coal, oil, and gas that are its ma…

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• The Lancet Countdown on health and plastics

  The Lancet · 2025-08-03 · 75 citations

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• Eight priorities for calculating the social cost of carbon

  Nature · 2021 · 69 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• Joseph E. Aldy

  43 shared

• Paramita Sinha

  RTI International

  37 shared

• Martha Caulkins

  University of Maryland, College Park

  31 shared

• Anna Alberini

  30 shared

• Kabir Malik

  28 shared

• Maximilian Auffhammer

  University of California, Berkeley

  27 shared

• Richard D. Morgenstern

  Resources For The Future

  27 shared

• Arthur G. Fraas

  25 shared

Labs

• Maureen Cropper LabPI

Education

• B.A.

  Bryn Mawr College

  1969

• Ph.D.

  Cornell University

  1973

Awards & honors

• Senior Fellow at Resources for the Future
• Member of the National Academy of Sciences
• Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Resear…
• Past president of the Association of Environmental and Resou…

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