mortality using an instrumental variable approach based on wind direction. Harnessing daily changes in county-level wind …

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 …

population density and the extent of tests conducted to fine tune the index. The association between per capita health … expenditure and relative performance indices reveals that there are states where relatively sound health infrastructure has not … ensured better performance in curing patients and those relatively weak have done better. But with a multi-dimensional health …

disease mortality across states over time. The results show that there is a causal link between health and income per person …This paper empirically investigates the long-run effects of major health improvements on income growth in the United … States. To isolate exogenous changes in health, the econometric model uses quasi-experimental variation in cardiovascular …

relate this process with health and retirement issues. Five dimensions of the ageing process have been considered: population …, mortality, longevity, lifecourses and morbidity. Conventionally measured ageing can be caused by low fertility and longer lives … and EU countries have experienced both. We emphasise the considerable compression of mortality that has taken place and …

This paper examines the effect of e-waste dumping sites on early child health. We focus on two major dumping sites in … mortality, for children living in the proximity of the site. Event studies suggest that the negative effects emerge 2-3 years …

, the transition into DST deteriorates sleep and increases time stress, which in turn affects physical and emotional health …