Oil spills can lead to irreversible environmental degradation and pose hazards to human health. We are the first to … Oil Spill Monitor and the Demographic and Health Surveys, and rely on the comparison of siblings conceived before and … across locations and socio-economic backgrounds. We also provide some evidence for negative health effects of nearby oil …

impact both younger and older children. The average treated student in our setting has an expected income reduction of $5 …

Air pollution generates vast health burdens and economic costs around the world. Pollution exposure varies greatly … Global Burden of Disease framework, I find that mortality associated with PM2.5 exposure is even more unequal than pollution …

robust to a host of sensitivity tests. These results suggest that air pollution plays an important role in mediating the …

birth, and infant health. In the context of South Korea, I exploit rich spatial and temporal variation in cash transfers … selection into childbearing may explain the health effects and that cash transfers may increase birth weight for low …

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 …

reductions in external damages are health benefits, highlighting the importance of accounting for co-pollution impacts of carbon …This paper is the first to investigate the effectiveness of fuel taxation to jointly deliver climate and health benefits … newspapers. We further show that gasoline-to-diesel substitution substantially mediates the trade-off between climate and health …

risks analysis yields several striking results. 1) Females have only a 28% chance to die of cancer when they have children … unmarried males); 3) females with children have only a 34% risk to die of heart disease and 4) a 53% chance of dying from … infections (compared to females without children); 5) married men have an increased expectation of 23% to die of heart disease …

This paper examines the effect of e-waste dumping sites on early child health. We focus on two major dumping sites in … West Africa, in Ghana and Nigeria. We observe children born before and after the creation of these dumps, and estimate a … mortality, for children living in the proximity of the site. Event studies suggest that the negative effects emerge 2-3 years …