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This paper estimates the monetary value of cutting PM2.5, a dominant source of air pollution in China. By matching … interviews in China, we are able to estimate the relationship between local concentration of particulate matter and individual … willing to pay ¥539 ($88, or 3.8% of annual household per capita income) for a 1 μg/m3 reduction in PM2.5 per year per person. …
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and possibly cut household air pollution in low-income countries. This study uses a randomized controlled trial to examine … household air pollution reductions from an improved biomass cookstove promoted in rural Ethiopia, the Mirt improved cookstove … sample, the Mirt improved cookstove leads to only minor reductions in mean household air pollution (10 percent on average …
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program in Wuhan, China. Our instrumental variable (IV) approach uses thermal inversion to address potential endogeneity in PM …
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Our study focuses on exploring the impact of air pollution on household investment in children's education in China …. Air pollution poses a significant risk to some cities in northern China. We have used panel data from secondary schools in … point decrease in the likelihood of parents spending on their children's education. The impact of air pollution on household …
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satisfaction, hedonic happiness and mental health. We match a nationally representative survey in China with local air quality and … air pollution would be higher if the hidden costs of air pollution on SWB in China are taken into account. …
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subjective well-being using China as an example. By matching a unique longitudinal dataset at the individual level, which …
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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 …
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Spatial distribution and leakage effects are of great policy concern and increasingly discussed in the economics literature. Here we study Europe's most aggressive recent air pollution regulation: Low Emission Zones are areas in which vehicular access is allowed only to vehicles that emit low...
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The fast spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 has resulted in the emergence of several hot-spots around the world. Several of these are located in areas associated with high levels of air pollution. This study investigates the relationship between exposure to particulate...
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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...
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