Much of what we know about the marginal effect of pollution on infant mortality is derived from developed country data …. However, given the lower levels of air pollution in developed countries, these estimates may not be externally valid to the … developing country context if there is a nonlinear dose relationship between pollution and mortality or if the costs of avoidance …

the form of residential sorting, can lead to non-random assignment of pollution, economists have employed a wide range of … quasi-experimental techniques to develop causal estimates of the effect of pollution. Second, economic research has placed a … biological and behavioral effects of pollution and for proper welfare calculations. Lastly, economic research has expanded the …

Moderate effects of pollution on health may exert an important influence on labor market decisions. We exploit … exogenous variation in pollution due to the closure of a large refinery in Mexico City to understand how pollution impacts labor … supply. The closure led to an 8 percent decline in pollution in the surrounding neighborhoods. We find that a one percent …

of evidence links pollution with poor health, and health is an important part of human capital, efforts to reduce … pollution could plausibly be viewed as an investment in human capital and thus a tool for promoting economic growth. While a … handful of studies have documented the impacts of pollution on labor supply, this paper is the first to rigorously assess the …

We investigate the effect of pollution on worker productivity in the service sector by focusing on two call centers in … China. Using precise measures of each worker's daily output linked to daily measures of pollution and meteorology, we find … that higher levels of air pollution decrease worker productivity by reducing the number of calls that workers complete each …

empirical investigations. We apply our framework to findings related to the economic impact of air pollution, deforestation, and …

A pervasive problem in the literature on the health costs of pollution is that optimizing individuals may compensate … for increases in pollution by reducing their exposure to protect their health. This implies that estimates of the health … effects of pollution may vastly understate the full welfare effects of pollution, particularly for individuals most at risk …