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 …

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 …

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 …

, adaptation policies can foster neonatal health and thus have positive long-run implications. …

This is the first study that uses a direct measure of skyglow, an important aspect of light pollution, to examine its … impact on infant health at birth. We find evidence of reduced birth weight, shortened gestational length and even preterm … add to the literature on the impact of in utero and early-life exposure to pollution, which thus far has focused primarily …

exposure to polluted water on health at birth using the recent Flint water crisis as a natural experiment. Matching vital … prematurity. The effects are larger for black or less educated mothers. Children born to disadvantaged mothers demonstrated 1 …

representative cohorts of children born to the NLSY respondents over time with detailed information on families, locations, health … harm child development and children's long run outcomes. Using the detailed geocoded data that follows national … births where one or more child was exposed to TRI pollution during gestation and other siblings were not exposed because the …

premature, the medical literature suggests that they have an increased risk of serious adverse health outcomes compared to …