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 …

This paper produces the first large-scale estimates of the US health related welfare costs due to climate change. Using … that under a "business as usual" scenario climate change will lead to an increase in the overall US annual mortality rate … zero, although there is evidence of statistically significant increases in mortality rates for some subpopulations …

studies in the economics and public health literatures measuring the mortality effects of air pollution. …Prior research demonstrates that mortality rates increase during economic booms and decrease during economic busts, but … overall, cause-specific, and age-specific mortality rates with state-level measures of ambient concentrations of three types …

We examine the impact of piped water on the under-1 infant mortality rate (IMR) in Brazil using a novel econometric … (2007), our estimates indicate that the provision of piped water reduces infant mortality by significantly more at the … IMR distribution, when accompanied by other basic public health inputs, can achieve significantly greater reductions in …

(particulate matter) had on fetal, infant, and child mortality. Exploiting the sharp timing and spatial patterns of the pollution … socioeconomic gradient in health. …