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Traffic Congestion and Infant Health : Evidence from E-ZPass

Currie, Janet - 2009

to poor health among infants …

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Air Pollution and Infant Health : Lessons from New Jersey

Currie, Janet - 2008

We examine the impact of three "criteria" air pollutants on infant health in New Jersey in the 1990s by combining … interactions of air pollution with smoking and other predictors of poor infant health outcomes. We find consistently negative …

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Air Pollution and Infant Health : What Can We Learn From California's Recent Experience

Currie, Janet - 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...

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Congestion Pricing, Air Pollution and Children’s Health

Simeonova, Emilia - 2018

the population health of local children. We demonstrate that the tax reduced ambient air pollution by 5 to 15 percent, and … young children. The change in health was more gradual than the change in pollution suggesting that it may take time for the … full health effects of changes in pollution to be felt. Given the sluggish adjustment of health to pollution changes, short …

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The 9/11 Dust Cloud and Pregnancy Outcomes : A Reconsideration

Currie, Janet - 2014

The events of 9/11 released a million tons of toxic dust into lower Manhattan, an unparalleled environmental disaster. It is puzzling then that the literature has shown little effect of fetal exposure to the dust. However, inference is complicated by pre-existing differences between the affected...

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