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with higher pollution potential. Furthermore, baseline disagreement with more subordinates' recommendations reduces …
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We study the relationship between water nutrient pollution and U.S. agriculture using data between the early 1970s and …
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-resolution pollution transport model. Between 2000-2018, PM2.5 concentrations from electricity fell by 89% for the average individual, more … air pollution policies and recent coal-to-natural gas fuel switching have played major roles in reducing U.S. racial …/ethnic pollution disparities from electricity. While we detect similarly large PM2.5 improvements for the average low and high income …
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Literature has shown that air pollution can have short- and long-term adverse effects on physiological and cognitive … related to productivity losses in the labor market. Using data from all construction sites and pollution monitoring stations … in Israel, we find a strong and significant connection between air pollution and construction site accidents. We find …
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" of pollution and could correct pre-existing disparities in exposure to land-based contamination …
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This paper provides the first estimates of the contemporaneous effect of drinking water quality violations on students' academic achievement. Using student-level test score data with residential addresses, geographic information on water systems, and drinking water violations from North...
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Although at least 400 million people suffer from seasonal allergies worldwide, the adverse effects of pollen on "non-health" outcomes, such as cognition and productivity, are relatively understudied. Using ambulance archives from Japan, we demonstrate that high pollen days are associated with...
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Wildfire activity has increased in the US and is projected to accelerate under future climate change. However, our understanding of the impacts of climate change on wildfire smoke and health remains highly uncertain. We quantify the past and future mortality burden in the US due to wildfire...
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We study exposure to pollution information and investment portfolio allocations, exploiting the rollout of air quality … monitoring stations in India. Using a triple-differences framework, we show that retail investors' investments in "brown" stocks … are negatively related to local air pollution after a monitoring station appears nearby, with particularly pronounced …
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indicates that strengthening a country's institutions decreases its pollution through relocating dirty industries abroad, though … increases pollution in other countries. Fifth, cross-country differences in the composition of output between clean and dirty … countries have relatively high pollution levels …
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