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 …

mortality using an instrumental variable approach based on wind direction. Harnessing daily changes in county-level wind … robust to a host of sensitivity tests. These results suggest that air pollution plays an important role in mediating the …

evidence that power plants spend less in water pollution abatement if the governor of the state where the plant is located is a … leads to increased pollution. …

20% increase in accident-related injuries, a 14% increase in particle pollution, and an 11% increase in hospital …

by Pratt and Zeckhauser (1996) asserts that an individuals' willingness to pay (WTP) for small reductions in mortality … risk increases with the initial level of risk. Their reasoning is based on differences in the marginal utility of wealth …: first, for a risk-averse individual without a bequest motive, marginal WTP for survival does increase with the level of risk …

study the causal effects of onshore oil spills on neonatal and infant mortality rates. We use spatial data from the Nigerian … after nearby oil spills. We find that nearby oil spills double the neonatal mortality rate. These effects are fairly uniform …

birthweight and mortality effects of gestational particulate matter exposure in high-pollution yet high-income Hong Kong. The … our stark mortality results in a comparative analysis of pollution-mortality relationships across studies. We provide … early evidence that marginal mortality damages from pollution are high in less-developed countries because they are less …

heterogeneity. These estimates confirm that the environmental risk for households is particularly perceived in more densely … metropolises on household environmental risk. …

particularly useful to understand aging of the oldest old, i.e. of individuals for which morbidity and mortality have reached a …

Noise pollution is detrimental to health and to cognitive development of children. This is not only true for extreme …