air pollution levels, and (2) what is the impact of modern air pollution levels on infant health? Our setting is …. A natural question is whether further reductions will yield additional health benefits. We further this research by … suggest that ambient pollution levels, specifically particulate matter, still have large impacts on weekly infant mortality …

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 current debates over the regulation of pollution. Second, many …

Although pollution is widespread, there is little evidence about how it might harm children's long run outcomes. Using … the detailed, geocoded data that follows national representative cohorts of children born to the National Longitudinal … site opened or closed within one mile of their home. I find that children who were exposed prenatally to industrial …

and inferring deaths from "missing children" in the 2000 Indonesian Census, I find that the pollution led to 15 …,600 missing children in Indonesia (1.2% of the affected birth cohorts). Prenatal exposure to pollution largely drives the result …Smoke from massive wildfires blanketed Indonesia in late 1997. This paper examines the impact this air pollution …

Has the expansion in exports affected pollution and health outcomes across different prefectures in China in the two …) PollutionExportShock represents the pollution content of export expansion and is measured in pounds of pollutants per worker; (ii … the rest of the world. We find that the pollution content of export affected pollution and mortality. A one standard …

Using the most comprehensive data file ever compiled on air pollution, water pollution, environmental regulations, and … air pollution regulations were effective at reducing ambient concentrations of particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, and … nitrogen dioxide. The most successful air pollution regulation is associated with a modest and statistically insignificant …

in both air quality and in health impacts that are independent of air quality, confounding pollution-health estimates. To …Accurate estimation of air quality impacts on health outcomes is critical for guiding policy choices to mitigate such …-35%), an effect comparable to quasi-experimental pollution-infant mortality estimates from wealthier countries. We also show …

We examine the effects of total suspended particulates (TSPs) air pollution on infant health using the air quality … was in force. TSPs nonattainment status is associated with sharp reductions in both TSPs pollution and infant mortality …

. We quantify the effect of the CWA on a direct measure of health and incorporate health benefits into a cost …-benefit analysis. Using a difference-in-differences framework, we compare health upstream and downstream from wastewater treatment … facilities before and after CWA grant receipt. Pollution only decreased downstream from facilities required to upgrade their …

poor health of young slave children. The sources of deprivation can be traced to the fetal period. The slave work routine …