ambient air pollution on population health. For Germany and the years 1999 to 2008, we link the universe of all 170 million … hospital admissions, along with all 8 million deaths, with weather and pollution data reported at the day-county level. Extreme … simultaneous weather and pollution conditions. We find strong evidence for "harvesting", and that the instantaneous heat …

Are 'green' environmental concerns - about climate change, biodiversity, pollution - deterring today's citizens from …

mortality if and only if mortality risk is convex in forecast errors. We test for such convexity using data on the universe of …

. Forecast receipt increased demand for protective masks and increased the responsiveness of outdoor time to pollution. Forecast … forecasts, limiting responses to uncertain future events like air pollution. We study two randomized interventions in Lahore …, Pakistan: 1) provision of air pollution forecasts; 2) general training in forecasting. Both reduced subjects' own air pollution …

The COVID-19 virus, also known as the coronavirus, is currently spreading around the world. While a growing literature … suggests that exposure to pollution can cause respiratory illness and increase deaths among the elderly, little is known about … whether increases in pollution could cause additional or more severe infections from COVID-19, which typically manifests as a …