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Pandemic meets pollution : poor air quality increases deaths by COVID-19
Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Pestel, Nico - 2020
We study the impact of short-term exposure to ambient air pollution on the spread and severity of COVID-19 in Germany … patients (80+ years): higher levels of air pollution by one standard deviation 3 to 12 days after developing symptoms increase … deaths by 30 percent (males) and 35 percent (females) of the mean. In addition, air pollution raises the number of confirmed …
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COVID-19 mortality and contemporaneous air pollution
Austin, Wes; Carattini, Stefano; Gomez Mahecha, John; … - 2020
robust to a host of sensitivity tests. These results suggest that air pollution plays an important role in mediating the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012298669
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When labor disputes bring cities to a standstill : the impact of public transit strikes on traffic, accidents, air pollution, and health
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Hener, Timo; Rainer, Helmut - 2015
20% increase in accident-related injuries, a 14% increase in particle pollution, and an 11% increase in hospital …
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Statistical vs. identified lives in benefit-cost analys
Hammitt, James K. (contributor); Treich, Nicolas (contributor) - 2007
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Relative price changes of ecosystem services : evidence from Germany
Heckenhahn, Jonas; Drupp, Moritz A. - 2022
Discounting future costs and benefits is a crucial yet contentious practice in the appraisal of long-term public projects with environmental consequences. The standard approach typically neglects that ecosystem services are not easily substitutable with manufactured goods and often exhibit...
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Limited substitutability, relative price changes and the uplifting of public natural capital values
Drupp, Moritz A.; Turk, Zachary; Groom, Benjamin; … - 2024
While the global economy continues to grow, ecosystem services tend to stagnate or decline. Economic theory has shown how such shifts in relative scarcities can be reflected in project appraisal and environmental-economic accounting, but empirical evidence has been sparse to put theory into...
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Intrafirm leakage
Soliman, Felix Samy - 2020
The environmental regulations US firms are exposed to are often place-based, incentivizing firms to move to less regulated counties or states. Consistent with this argument, multiplant firms partially regulated under the ozone regulations of the US Clean Air Act offset regulation-induced...
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Democracy, inequality and the environment when citizens can mitigate privately or act collectively
Bernard, Sophie; Hotte, Louis; Winer, Stanley L. - 2010
either mitigate the health consequences of domestic pollution privately or reduce pollution collectively through public … ordinary citizens. The recognition that the health consequences of pollution can be dealt with privately at a cost adds an … private mitigation is feasible, inequality of incomes leads to an unequal distribution of the health burden of pollution (in …
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Charging NOx emitters for health damages : an exploratory analysis
Mauzerall, Denise L.; Sultan, Babar; Kim, Namsoug; … - 2005
We present a proof-of-concept analysis of the measurement of the health damage of ozone (O3) produced from nitrogen oxides (NOx = NO + NO2) emitted by individual large point sources in the eastern United States. We use a regional atmospheric model of the eastern United States, the Comprehensive...
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A thousand cuts: cumulative lead exposure reduces academic achievement
Hollingsworth, Alex; Huang, Mike; Rudik, Ivan; Sanders, … - 2022
We study how ambient lead exposure impacts learning in elementary school by leveraging a natural experiment where a large national automotive racing organization switched from leaded to unleaded fuel. We find increased levels and duration of exposure to lead negatively affect academic...
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