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 … respiratory infection. Using variation in pollution induced by a rollback of enforcement of environmental regulations by the …

This paper uses the 1918 influenza pandemic as a natural experiment to examine whether air pollution affects …-city differences in baseline pollution measures based on coal-fired electricity generating capacity for a sample 183 American cities …. The findings suggest that air pollution exacerbated the impact of the pandemic. Proximity to World War I military bases …

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 …

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 …

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 …

China. Using precise measures of each worker's daily output linked to daily measures of pollution and meteorology, we find …We investigate the effect of pollution on worker productivity in the service sector by focusing on two call centers in … that higher levels of air pollution decrease worker productivity by reducing the number of calls that workers complete each …

China in 2015, Chengdu and Chongqing, on air pollution. We use high-frequency and high spatial resolution data to track …Following market liberalisation, the vehicle population in China has increased dramatically over the past few decades … pollution along major highways linking the two cities. Our approach involves the use of an augmented regression discontinuity in …

This paper examines the role of a sulphur dioxide (SO2) emissions quota introduced as part of China's 11th Five …

(agriculture). Our focus is mainly on the costs associated with congestion and pollution as well the impact of under-priced energy … indicative estimates of the external costs of energy subsidies, as manifested in congestion and pollution. Our estimates using …