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Coresidency, ethnicity, and happiness of China's rural elders
Connelly, Rachel; Iannotti, Michael; Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - 2014
As China moves into the ranks of aged societies, coresidency of elders with their adult children has become an … increasingly important policy concern. This article utilizes data from the 2000 Population Census of China and the 2011 Chinese … Household Ethnicity Survey (CHES) to analyze coresidency patterns of rural elders in seven Chinese provinces with high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010358242
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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. We combine data on county-by-day level on confirmed cases and deaths with information on local air quality and weather conditions and exploit short-term variation in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012242834
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Impact of the Clean Air Act on air pollution and infant health : evidence from South Korea
Lee, Soohyung; Yoo, Heesun; Nam, Minhyuk - 2018
This paper examines the extent to which the 2005 Clean Air Act introduced in South Korea affected air pollution and infant health. To identify the causal effect, we exploit the time and geographical variations in the adoption of the Act between 2003 and 2006. During this period, the Clean Air...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011865473
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Depression in the house : the effects of household air pollution from solid fuel use in China
Liu, Yan; Chen, Xi; Yan, Zhijun - 2019
of household air pollution (HAP) on mental health. We investigated the causal link between HAP exposure from the use of … solid fuel on depressive symptoms using a nationally representative dataset of middle-aged and older population in China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012120663
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Determination of emission reduction costs through optimization of generator scheduling in Indonesia
Hasudungan, Jaspar; Raharjo, Jangkung - In: International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy : IJEEP 12 (2022) 3, pp. 395-400
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Toxic truth : lead and fertility
Clay, Karen; Portnykh, Margarita; Severnini, Edson R. - 2018
Using U.S county level data on lead in air for 1978-1988 and lead in topsoil in the 2000s, this paper examines the impact of lead exposure on a critical human function with societal implications - fertility. To provide causal estimates of the effect of lead on fertility, we use two sets of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011865468
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City size, pollution and emission policies
Pflüger, Michael - 2018
This paper develops a micro-founded city systems model with an endogenous number of cities to explore whether local governments establish the optimal city size when production processes involve environmental pollution. Our analysis delivers two key insights. First, if an optimal scheme to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011803021
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Greener fleet, cleaner air : how Low Emission Zones reduce pollution
Aydin, Eren; Gehrsitz, Markus; Traxler, Christian - 2024
Using a stacked differences-in-differences approach, we study the effects of Low Emission Zones (LEZs) in Germany. The implementation of stage 1 and 2 LEZs, which banned the most pollution-intensive vehicles from city centers, significantly reduced PM10 concentrations. The most restrictive third...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014582278
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Fetal pollution exposure, cognitive ability, and gender-specific parental investment
Zhang, Xin; Wang, Yixuan; Chen, Xi - 2024
representative survey in China, we find that fetal PM2.5 exposure significantly reduce cognitive ability in women, particularly those …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015062058
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Who pays for general training? : new evidence for British men and women
Booth, Alison L.; Bryan, Mark L. - 2002
We use important new training information from waves 8-10 of the British Household Panel Survey to document the various …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411235