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of the global emissions of some pollutants. However, there is little evidence on the health consequences of open … on adult health, human capital, and labor market outcomes, this suggests open-air waste burning imposes significant costs …
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We find that long-term exposure to fine-particulate air pollution (PM2.5) degrades health and human capital among older …' cumulative residential exposures to PM2.5 and their health from 2004 through 2013, leveraging within- and between-county quasi …
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spring of 2020. This paper examines the impact that these actions had on emissions and expected health effects through …
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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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We investigate the relationship between the opening of a city's subway network and its air quality. We find that particulate concentrations drop by 4% in a 10km radius disk surrounding a city center following a subway system opening. The effect is larger near the city center and persists over...
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to poor health among infants …
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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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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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We examine the effects of total suspended particulates (TSPs) air pollution on infant health using the air quality …
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. A natural question is whether further reductions will yield additional health benefits. We further this research by … air pollution levels, and (2) what is the impact of modern air pollution levels on infant health? Our setting is …
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