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and temporal resolution. Then, we link inversion episode data to ground level pollution monitors and to daily in- and … from low-income households suffer significantly more from air pollution than children from high income households. Finally … pollution across children in rich and poor households. …
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plant located in an industrial city in Hebei province, north China. Long-term workers earn piece-rate wages, with no base ….5 concentrations, with the drop leveling off for further increases in fine-particle pollution. A back-of-the-envelope calculation … hourly PM2.5 truncated at 25 µg/m3. We also find reduced product quality as pollution rises. Our model allows for selection …
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In this paper, we estimate the causal effect of ambient air pollution on individuals' productivity by using panel data … exogenous variation in the players' exposure to air pollution due to match scheduling rules that are beyond the control of teams … and players. Our analysis shows negative and non-linear effects of air pollution on short-run productivity. We further …
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Air pollution was severe in many urban areas of the United States in the first half of the twentieth century, in part …
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literature. Here we study Europe's most aggressive recent air pollution regulation: Low Emission Zones are areas in which … Germany, we assess the distribution of air pollution and the spatial substitution effects in green versus dirty vehicles. We … find that LEZs decrease air pollution by around nine percent in urban traffic centers while pollution is unchanged in non …
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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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in environmental conditions and air quality. While air pollution is a serious threat to health in most developing … challenges faced by these countries without undermining their economies. In this paper, we examine the impact of air pollution on …
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experience of California in the 1990s is clearly relevant to current debates over the regulation of pollution. Second, many …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 …
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(agriculture). Our focus is mainly on the costs associated with congestion and pollution as well the impact of under-priced energy … indicative estimates of the external costs of energy subsidies, as manifested in congestion and pollution. Our estimates using …
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This paper investigates the possibility of intergenerational transmission of unhealthy eating habits from parents to adult children. It uses the 2003 Scottish Health Survey and estimates the association between the present healthy eating behaviour of adult children and the past parental death...
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