This article examines pollution and environmental mortality in an economy where fertility is endogenous and output is … pollution-induced mortality but also shifts resources to the clean sector. If the dirty sector is more capital intensive, then … expansion of population boosts total pollution, aggravating mortality. …

Do environmental conditions pose greater health risks to individuals living in urban or rural areas? The answer is … air pollution, drinking water pollution, and extreme temperatures - and the response to those exposures differ across … pollution, leveraging recent advances in remote sensing measurement and machine learning. We find that the urban-rural gap in …

There are growing concerns about the impact of pollution on maternal and infant health. In the UK in 2018, 36% of local … pollution remains an urgent public health priority, our results imply that improvements in short-run levels of prenatal PM2 … authorities had levels of PM2.5 where exposure exceeded the annual level recommended by the World Health Organisation at the time …

Car exhaust is a major source of air pollution, but little is known about its impacts on population health. We exploit … - across the United States from 2008-2015 as a natural experiment to measure the health impact of car pollution. Using the … low birth weight and acute asthma attacks among children by 1.9 and 8.0 percent, respectively. These health impacts occur …

exposure to polluted water on health at birth using the recent Flint water crisis as a natural experiment. Matching vital …

value to households of avoiding this residence-specific environmental health risk. In this paper, we estimate the benefits …

of the global emissions of some pollutants. However, there is little evidence on the health consequences of open … in waste burning in residential neighborhoods in Beirut and Mount Lebanon. To identify effects, we exploit variation in … on adult health, human capital, and labor market outcomes, this suggests open-air waste burning imposes significant costs …

representative cohorts of children born to the NLSY respondents over time with detailed information on families, locations, health … births where one or more child was exposed to TRI pollution during gestation and other siblings were not exposed because the … exposed prenatally to TRI pollution have lower wages, are more likely to be in poverty as adults, have fewer years of …

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 …