significant increase of hospital mortality among those who underwent surgeries on days with high particulate matter pollution …, before or after the surgery, is primarily explanatory of the excess mortality. Second, a small but high-risk group - elderly …

the rest of the world. We find that the pollution content of export affected pollution and mortality. A one standard … deviation increase in PollutionExportShock increases infant mortality by 2.2 deaths per thousand live births, which is about 13 …% of the standard deviation of infant mortality change during the period. The dollar value of export expansion tends to …

women in developing countries face particularly severe vulnerabilities, so that excess mortality faced by the unmarried is … female mortality faced by older unmarried women in developing regions. We place these estimates in the context of the missing … age and that it is the relatively high mortality rates of these young unmarried women (compared to their married …

on the sample employed), a pattern that holds for within-firm estimations. The connections-mortality relationship is …

in atmospheric science into econometric estimation with microdata on mortality and health. Combining transboundary … particle trajectory data with the universe of individual-level mortality and emergency room visit data in South Korea, we find … that transboundary air pollution from China significantly increases mortality and morbidity in South Korea. Using these …