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about local amenities. This paper measures the housing market and health impacts of 1,600 openings and closings of ….5 million. While the housing value impacts are concentrated within 1/2 mile, we find statistically significant infant health …
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compensating differentials, measured as the changes in household income that would produce equivalent levels of life satisfaction … and country - and find that they add significantly to the explanation of life satisfaction among Canadian respondents, and …
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This paper estimates the effect of early lead exposure on academic achievement and adult earnings. We analyze longitudinal information from individuals attending primary and secondary schools in the city of Arica (in northern Chile). Between 1984 and 1989, Arica received more than 20,000 tons of...
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It is conventional wisdom that it is possible to reduce exposure to indoor air pollution, improve health outcomes, and … lung functioning or health and there is no change in fuel consumption (and presumably greenhouse gas emissions). The … and health technologies in real-world settings where behavior may temper impacts, and to test them over a long enough …
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Approximately $30 billion (2000$) has been spent on Superfund clean-ups of hazardous waste sites, and remediation efforts are incomplete at roughly half of the 1,500 Superfund sites. This study estimates the effect of Superfund clean-ups on local housing price appreciation. We compare housing...
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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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We examine the effect of air pollution on school absences using unique administrative data for elementary and middle school children in the 39 largest school districts in Texas. These data are merged with information from monitors maintained by the Environmental Protection Agency. To control for...
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This paper produces the first large-scale estimates of the US health related welfare costs due to climate change. Using …, particularly infants. As the canonical Becker-Grossman health production function model highlights, the full welfare impact will be … reflected in health outcomes and increased consumption of goods that preserve individuals' health. Individuals' likely first …
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Efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the US have relied on Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Standards and Renewable Fuel Standards (RFS). Economists often argue that these policies are inefficient relative to carbon pricing because they ignore existing vehicles and do not...
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This paper examines positive externalities and complementarities in the use of antiviral pharmaceuticals to mitigate pandemic influenza. The paper demonstrates the presence of treatment externalities in simple epidemiological SIR models, and then through simulations of a Global Epidemiological...
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