This study examines the uneven effects of air pollution from maritime ports on physical and mental health across racial … traffic influences air pollution and human health. We find that one additional vessel in a port over a year leads to 3 …-related environmental regulation and show that the policy can help alleviate racial inequalities in health outcomes. …

technologies, and workers’ health outcomes using novel and representative German linked employer-employee data. Based on changes in … and service-oriented tasks across all workers, but exacerbates health inequality between cognitive and manual workers … manual workers’ subjective health and increase sick leave, while leaving cognitive workers unaffected. We provide evidence …

The paper develops and applies a Grossman-style health production model set up in discrete time to explain the impact … of environmental pollution on the demand for both health and health care. In order to introduce the environment, our … analysis takes changes in environmental conditions to influence the rate at which an individual's stock of health depreciates …