. Based on it, we designed the agriculture-household model, which predicts that health outcomes of child is dependent on …

This paper investigates the intergenerational effect of communication barriers on child health at birth using a natural … records of all refugee arrivals and birth events between 2010 and 2017 show that children born to mothers who were exogenously …

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 … Synthetic Control Method (SCM) to identify the causal impact of water pollution on key birth outcomes. Our results suggest that …

Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses … larger for boys, children from rural or poor households, and those with less-educated mothers. Our findings suggest that … health policies designed to improve birth weight could improve human capital in resource-poor settings. …

Indoor air pollution (IAP) - predominantly from the use of solid fuel for cooking - is a global health threat …, particularly for women and young children, and one of the leading causes of infant deaths worldwide in developing countries. We … estimate the causal effect of cooking fuel choice on infant mortality in India, focusing on children under five years of age …

This paper investigates the impacts of COVID-19 safer-at-home polices on collisions and pollution. We find that … severe collisions. For pollution, we find particulate matter concentration levels approximately 1.5µg/m3 lower during the … period of a safer-at-home order, representing a 25% reduction. We document a similar reduction in air pollution following the …

Ground-level ozone is a continuing problem worldwide, but research on the influences of ozone pollution on labour … productivity in developing countries is insufficient. We investigate the effect of ozone pollution on outdoor worker productivity …. Using an instrumental variable constructed from ozone pollution of upwind nearby cities, we find that a one …

We leverage the timing of coalmine accidents to examine the effect of coal mining on air pollution. Safety regulations … pollution data at the county-day level with the dates of accidents to show that on average, suspending coal mining reduces local … air pollution by 8%. Changes in the level of coal consumption do not drive this reduction. We also find significant …

Very few studies have examined the impacts of both climate change and air pollution on student education outcomes …, and temperature and air pollution data over the past decade for Viet Nam, we find that a 1 μg/m3 increase in PM2 …, respectively. We also find some indicative evidence of stronger impacts of air pollution for younger, primary school students who …