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 …

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 …

28%. Further, fracking decreased local air pollution by an average of 4%. We show that benefits vary geographically; air … pollution levels decreased by 35% in the most affected region. Back of the envelope calculations imply accumulated health …

rich world today. We document large reductions in productivity, of the order of 15%, over the first 200 µg/m3 rise in PM2 ….5 concentrations, with the drop leveling off for further increases in fine-particle pollution. A back-of-the-envelope calculation … hourly PM2.5 truncated at 25 µg/m3. We also find reduced product quality as pollution rises. Our model allows for selection …

China in 2015, Chengdu and Chongqing, on air pollution. We use high-frequency and high spatial resolution data to track … pollution along major highways linking the two cities. Our approach involves the use of an augmented regression discontinuity in … estimates show that air pollution is reduced by 7.6% along the main affected highway. We simultaneously find increased levels of …

Influenza and air pollution each pose significant public health risks with large global economic consequences. The … externalities. Using instrumental variables based on changing wind directions, we show increased levels of contemporaneous pollution … of pollution control and vaccination campaigns jointly provide greater returns than those implied by addressing either in …

examines the causal effect of plastic waste imports on air pollution by exploiting China’s experience of importing plastic …. To evaluate the impact of the import ban on air quality, we employ daily data on air pollution between 2015 and 2020. Our …

We study the impact of short-term exposure to ambient air pollution on the spread and severity of COVID-19 in Germany … patients (80+ years): higher levels of air pollution by one standard deviation 3 to 12 days after developing symptoms increase … deaths by 30 percent (males) and 35 percent (females) of the mean. In addition, air pollution raises the number of confirmed …

pollution generated by coal fueled power units on the anemic status of children and women in India. We show that among very … among adult women. Impacts on anemic status are driven by the growth of PM2.5 pollution attributable to emissions from coal …