Tradeoffs between monetary wealth and fatal safety risks are summarized in the value of a statistical life (VSL), a …, that must be confronted in order to provide a credible estimate of a VSL. The paper concludes with an application of these …

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 …

bags to trace out the demand curve for air bags and the implied distribution of the Value of a Statistical Life (VSL …) across consumers. While imprecise, our preferred point estimates indicate that the median VSL is between $7 million and $13 …

This paper uses the 1918 influenza pandemic as a natural experiment to examine whether air pollution affects …-city differences in baseline pollution measures based on coal-fired electricity generating capacity for a sample 183 American cities …. The findings suggest that air pollution exacerbated the impact of the pandemic. Proximity to World War I military bases …

development on mortality among adults and the elderly. Our research design exploits the variation in the timing of the deployment … mortality rates. According to our point estimates, a one-percentage point increase in the rate of subscriptions to natural gas … services would lower the overall mortality rate by 1.4 percent, the adult mortality rate by 1.9 percent, and the elderly …

Air pollution was severe in many urban areas of the United States in the first half of the twentieth century, in part … due to the burning of bituminous coal for heat. We estimate the effects of this bituminous coal consumption on mortality … within-state changes in mortality in non-winter months as an additional control group. Our estimates suggest that reductions …

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 …

ambient air pollution on population health. For Germany and the years 1999 to 2008, we link the universe of all 170 million … hospital admissions, along with all 8 million deaths, with weather and pollution data reported at the day-county level. Extreme … simultaneous weather and pollution conditions. We find strong evidence for "harvesting", and that the instantaneous heat …

.5 and risk of hospital admissions (HAs) for MDs in Beijing and measure the attributable risk and economic cost. We apply a … burden of MDs. Specifically, a 10 μg/m3 daily increase in PM2.5 is associated with a 3.55% increase in the risk of HAs for …