This paper studies the interplay between climate, health, and the economy in a stylized world with four heterogeneous …). We introduce health impacts into a simple integrated assessment model where both the local cooling effect of aerosols as … show how some of the important aspects of the equilibrium, including emission abatement rates, health costs, and economic …

investigates the impact of home births on the health of low-risk newborns using data from the Netherlands, the only developed … substantial reductions in newborn mortality. We provide suggestive evidence that proximity to medical technologies may be an … important channel contributing to these health gains. …

in opposing forces on savings: mortality increases, which reduces savings, and long-term illness risk increases, which … increased mortality decreases the amount of savings and that having a high perception of HIV contamination risk increases …