Similar Search Results

What Do We Know About Short and Long Term Effects of Early Life Exposure to Pollution?

Currie, Janet; Graff Zivin, Joshua; Mullins, Jamie; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Pollution exposure early in life is detrimental to near-term health and an increasing body of evidence suggests that early childhood health influences health and human capital outcomes later in life. This paper reviews the economic research that brings these two literatures together. We begin...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010960035

HIV and Fertility Revisited

Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; Turan, Belgi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

Young (2005) argues that HIV related population declines reinforced by the fertility response to the epidemic will lead to higher capital-labor ratios and to higher per capita incomes in the affected countries of Africa. Using household level data on fertility from South Africa and relying on...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008635943

Energy Production and Health Externalities: Evidence from Oil Refinery Strikes in France

Lavaine, Emmanuelle; Neidell, Matthew J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

This paper examines the effect of energy production on newborn health using a recent strike that affected oil refineries in France as a natural experiment. First, we show that the temporary reduction in refining lead to a significant reduction in sulfur dioxide (SO2) concentrations. Second, this...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010640497

Air Pollution and Infant Health: Lessons from New Jersey

Currie, Janet; Neidell, Matthew J.; Schmieder, Johannes - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

We examine the impact of three "criteria" air pollutants on infant health in New Jersey in the 1990s by combining information about mother's residential location from birth certificates with information from air quality monitors. In addition to large sample size, our work offers three important...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005710307

HIV and Fertility in Africa: First Evidence from Population Based Surveys

Juhn, Chinhui; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; Turan, Belgi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

The historical pattern of the demographic transition suggests that fertility declines follow mortality declines, followed by a rise in human capital accumulation and economic growth. The HIV/AIDS epidemic threatens to reverse this path. A recent paper by Young (2005), however, suggests that...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005718403

Information, Avoidance Behavior, and Health: The Effect of Ozone on Asthma Hospitalizations

Neidell, Matthew J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

This paper assesses whether responses to information about risk impact estimates of the relationship between ozone and asthma in Southern California. Using a regression discontinuity design, I find smog alerts significantly reduces daily attendance at two major outdoor facilities. Using daily...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005774381

Mortality Change, the Uncertainty Effect, and Retirement

Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; Weil, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002

We examine the role of changing mortality in explaining the rise of retirement over the course of the 20th century. We construct a model in which individuals make labor/leisure choices over their lifetimes subject to uncertainty about their date of death. In an environment in which mortality is...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005575704

Something in the Water: Contaminated Drinking Water and Infant Health

Currie, Janet; Graff Zivin, Joshua; Schlenker, Wolfram; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

This paper provides estimates of the effects of in utero exposure to contaminated drinking water on fetal health. We examine the universe of birth records and drinking water testing results for the state of New Jersey from 1997 to 2007. Our data enable us to compare outcomes across siblings who...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010796677

AIDS, "Reversal" of the Demographic Transition and Economic Development: Evidence from Africa

Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

Using country- and region-level data, I investigate the effect of HIV/AIDS on fertility in Africa during 1985-2000. Results differ depending on the variation used and the estimation method. Between estimates that exploit cross-sectional variation suggest a positive significant effect of HIV/AIDS...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004991972

Inequality and Unemployment in a Global Economy

Helpman, Elhanan; Redding, Stephen James; Itskhoki, Oleg - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

consistent with increasing inequality in every country, growth in residual wage inequality, rising unemployment, and reallocation … within and between industries. While the opening of trade yields welfare gains, unemployment and inequality within sectors … nonmonotonic effects on unemployment and inequality within sectors. As aggregate unemployment and inequality have within- and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005720079