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 …

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 …

examines the causal effect of plastic waste imports on air pollution by exploiting China’s experience of importing plastic … recipient countries. As the largest recipient, China has permanently banned the imports of plastic waste since 2018. This paper …. To evaluate the impact of the import ban on air quality, we employ daily data on air pollution between 2015 and 2020. Our …

This paper examines the role of a sulphur dioxide (SO2) emissions quota introduced as part of China's 11th Five … prefectures, this regulation effect is twice as large in the smaller regulated prefectures. A possible mechanism could be that the …

schools in a major city in north China to estimate how fluctuation in ambient PM2.5 over the preceding fortnight impacts daily … pollution estimated for the US using aggregate data. Using school absence patterns as a window into short-run health and … residence in north China comes at the expense of long-term health. …

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 …

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 …

plant located in an industrial city in Hebei province, north China. Long-term workers earn piece-rate wages, with no base ….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 …

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 …