Kilauea volcano is the largest stationary source of SO2 pollution in the United States of America. Moreover, the SO2 … pollution variation to estimate the impact of particulate matter and SO2 on emergency room admissions and costs in the state of … evidence that particulate pollution increases pulmonary-related hospitalization. Specifically, a one standard deviation …

increases in service frequency reduce road traffic externalities. We exploit differences in service frequency growth by … procurement mode following a railway reform in Germany to address endogeneity of service growth. Increases in service frequency … reduce the number of severe road traffic accidents, carbon monoxide, nitrogen monoxide, nitrogen dioxide pollution and infant …

This research advances an evolutionary growth theory that captures the pattern of life expectancy in the process of …

Acemoglu and Johnson (2007), estimate that improvements in health have no impact on growth or any factors of growth; in …

How much of China’s recent economic performance can be attributed to market-oriented reforms introduced in the last two … Paper compares the integration of rice markets in China today and 270 years ago. In the 18th century, transport technology … pattern of interregional income in China is strongly linked to persistent geographic factors that were already apparent …

period 1550–1630. We add evidence from Japan and China from the early modern period until 1800 to obtain a human capital … despite high early numerical human capital formation, had substantially higher growth rates during the late 20th and early 21 …

, education, and skills for consumption (rather than production)---can importantly affect patterns of economic growth and … development. Evidence from the failed Industrial Revolution in 14th-century China illustrates the empirical relevance of the …

five years under various economic growth, real exchange rate, and policy assumptions. It concludes that China is set to …Over the past decade Hong Kong and China have become far more important to the world’s wine markets, while Southeast …