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.5) for all age cohorts in a developing country, using individual-level health spending data from a basic medical insurance … suggest that a 10 μg/m3 reduction in monthly average PM2.5 leads to a 2.36% decrease in the value of health spending and a 0 …
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a public health crisis. Using the Flint Water Crisis as a natural experiment, we estimate the effect of in utero … exposure to polluted water on health at birth. Matching vital statistics birth records with various sources of data, we use a ….S. aging, lead-laced water systems in promoting racial and ethnic health equity. …
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We explore how involuntary and voluntary exits from self-employment affect life and health satisfaction. To that end …-employment exit) brings small improvements in health and life satisfaction, the negative psychological costs of business failure (i … physical health and behaviors such as smoking and drinking, implying that the costs of losing self-employment are largely …
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fuel poverty and a set of well-being outcomes: life-satisfaction, self-reported health measures and more objectively … associations with life satisfaction and fibrinogen, one of our biological health measures. The presence of these strong … deprivation indicators as well as in the case of self-reported generic measures of physical health. Lifestyle and chronic health …
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This paper investigates the impacts of COVID-19 safer-at-home polices on collisions and pollution. We find that statewide safer-at-home policies lead to a 20% reduction in vehicular collisions and that the effect is entirely driven by less severe collisions. For pollution, we find particulate...
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mental health and subjective well-being (SWB). This paper attempts to fill the gap by investigating the impact of air … pollution on several key dimensions, including mental health status, depressive symptoms, moment-to-moment happiness, and …
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While adverse health effects of ambient air pollution have been well documented, there is scarce evidence on the impact … of household air pollution (HAP) on mental health. We investigated the causal link between HAP exposure from the use of …
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analyses are performed by age, gender and season. We further estimate health and economic burden of HAs for MDs attributable to …
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Indoor air pollution (IAP)–predominantly from the use of solid fuel for cooking– is a global health threat … using pooled cross-sectional data from the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) over the period 1992–2016. To address the …
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representative survey data from the 2015 China Health and Retirement Longitude Survey, the results from both the ordinary least …
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