An OECD project has been implemented on the valuation of environment-related health impacts for children. The lack of empirical surveys and associated lack of data in this area has been a barrier to the provision of sound policy advice. Indeed, existing values used for monetisation of environment-related health impacts focus on adult populations and use scenarios that often do not match well with environmental scenarios. As such, there is concern that the continued use of existing estimates from unrelated contexts that do not take these factors into account may result in a misguided benefit-cost analyses, and in a possible misallocation of resources, especially when environmental policies with significant implications for children are under consideration.
 
To this end, a three-year project funded under the FP6 Framework by the European Commission's Directorate General for Research has sought to answer some of these questions. An original survey instrument was applied in three OECD countries (United Kingdom, Italy and the Czech Republic) that have disparities in terms of important factors, such as social insurance systems, health care systems, social concern about the environment, etc. This survey was developed so as to provide estimates of WTP for risk reductions to adult and child populations, also allowing for cross-country comparisons.

A publication "Valuation of Environment-Related Health Risks for Children" summarising the main results and policy implications of the project was released on 1 December 2010.
 
Three teams were involved in the project (along with OECD):

• University of East Anglia (Ian Bateman, Silvia Ferrini and Graham Loomes)

• Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (Anna Alberini and Aline Chiabai)

• Charles University of Prague (Milan Ščasný and Markéta Braun Kohlová)