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Economic Status, Air Quality, and Child Health: Evidence from Inversion Episodes
Jans, Jenny; Johansson, Per; Nilsson, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
outpatient records for the universe of children in Sweden during a six-year period to provide instrumental variable estimates of … the effects of air quality on children's health. The IV estimates show that the respiratory illness health care visit rate …. Importantly, by linking the health care data to detailed records of parental background characteristics, we show that children …
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Severe Air Pollution and Labor Productivity
Li, Teng; Liu, Haoming; Salvo, Alberto - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
We examine day-to-day fluctuations in worker-level output over 15 months for a panel of 98 manufacturing workers at a plant located in an industrial city in Hebei province, north China. Long-term workers earn piece-rate wages, with no base pay or minimum pay, for homogeneous tasks performed over...
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Productivity Effects of Air Pollution: Evidence from Professional Soccer
Lichter, Andreas; Pestel, Nico; Sommer, Eric - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
In this paper, we estimate the causal effect of ambient air pollution on individuals' productivity by using panel data on the universe of professional soccer players in Germany over the period 1999-2011. Combining this data with hourly information on the concentration of particulate matter in...
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Coal, Smoke, and Death: Bituminous Coal and American Home Heating
Barreca, Alan I.; Clay, Karen; Tarr, Joel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Air pollution was severe in many urban areas of the United States in the first half of the twentieth century, in part due to the burning of bituminous coal for heat. We estimate the effects of this bituminous coal consumption on mortality rates in the U.S. during the mid-20th century. Coal...
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Keep Your Clunker in the Suburb: Low Emission Zones and Adoption of Green Vehicles
Wolff, Hendrik - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Spatial distribution and leakage effects are of great policy concern and increasingly discussed in the economics literature. Here we study Europe's most aggressive recent air pollution regulation: Low Emission Zones are areas in which vehicular access is allowed only to vehicles that emit low...
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The Life Satisfaction Approach to Environmental Valuation
Frey, Bruno S.; Luechinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
In many countries environmental policies and regulations are implemented to improve environmental quality and thus individuals' well-being. However, how do individuals value the environment? In this paper, we review the Life Satisfaction Approach (LSA) representing a new non-market valuation...
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Air Pollution and Infant Mortality: Evidence from the Expansion of Natural Gas Infrastructure
Cesur, Resul; Tekin, Erdal; Ulker, Aydogan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
One of the consequences of rapid economic growth and industrialization in the developing world has been deterioration in environmental conditions and air quality. While air pollution is a serious threat to health in most developing countries, environmental regulations are rare and the...
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Air Pollution and Infant Health: What Can We Learn From California's Recent Experience?
Currie, Janet; Neidell, Matthew - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
We examine the impact of air pollution on infant death in California over the 1990s. Our work offers several innovations: First, many previous studies examine populations subject to far greater levels of pollution. In contrast, the experience of California in the 1990s is clearly relevant to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761765
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Personality, IQ, and Lifetime Earnings
Gensowski, Miriam - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Talented individuals are seen as drivers of long-term growth, but how do they realize their full potential? In this paper, I show that even in a group of high-IQ men and women, lifetime earnings are substantially influenced by their education and personality traits. I identify a previously...
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Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Choice Models by Maximum Likelihood and the Simulated Method of Moments
Eisenhauer, Philipp; Heckman, James J.; Mosso, Stefano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We compare the performance of maximum likelihood (ML) and simulated method of moments (SMM) estimation for dynamic discrete choice models. We construct and estimate a simplified dynamic structural model of education that captures some basic features of educational choices in the United States in...
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