In light of the low public awareness of ozone pollution and the potential health threats posed by long-term ozone … exposure, this study estimates the causal effect of long-term ozone exposure on respiratory mortality. By employing an … instrumental variable based on the long-distance transmission of ozone from upwind neighbor counties, we discover that an increase …

This paper estimates the monetary value of cutting PM2.5, a dominant source of air pollution in China. By matching …, essentially a happiness-based measure of willingness-to-pay for mitigating air pollution. We find that people on average are …

satisfaction, hedonic happiness and mental health. We match a nationally representative survey in China with local air quality and … to air pollution across similar respondents living in the same county, we find that PM2.5 reduces hedonic happiness and … increases the rate of depressive symptoms, but does not affect life satisfaction. Our results show that the benefits of reducing …

Existing studies that evaluate the impact of pollution on human beings understate its negative effect on cognition …, mental health, and happiness. This paper attempts to fill in the gap via investigating the impact of air quality on … the rate of depressive symptoms. However, life satisfaction, an evaluative measure of happiness, is largely immune from …

individuals' well-being. However, how do individuals value the environment? In this paper, we review the Life Satisfaction …-being research in economics and takes measures of reported life satisfaction as an empirical approximation to individual welfare …. Micro-econometric life satisfaction functions are estimated taking into account environmental conditions along with income …

pollutants on health. To circumvent this, we use emissions from Kīlauea volcano, uncorrelated with other pollution sources, to … young. No strong effects for SO2 pollution or cardiovascular outcomes are found. Since 2008, the volcano has increased …

We examine the persistence of the impact of early-life exposure to air pollution on children's health from birth to … school enrollment using administrative public health insurance records covering one third of all children in Germany. For … medication for at least five years. The initially latent health response materializes only gradually in lower medication usage …

ozone concentration in the United States from 1980-2013, and the role of institution-induced adaptation. Ozone is formed …

Ground-level ozone has been shown to have significant health consequences from short-term exposure, and as such has … been regulated in the U.S. since the 1970s by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Ozone is not emitted directly … ozone precursors and not when these emissions occur. Using hourly data on ambient ozone from 1980-2017 near the U.S. time …

climate change on local air pollution. Economic agents are usually constrained when responding to daily weather shocks, but …