and baseline city health conditions also contributed to pandemic severity. The effects of air pollution are quantitatively … between air pollution and infectious disease on health, and suggest that there may be large co-benefits associated with …

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 …

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 … in the use of bituminous coal for heating between 1945 and 1960 decreased winter all-age mortality by 1.25 percent and …

In light of the low public awareness of ozone pollution and the potential health threats posed by long-term ozone … exposure, this study estimates the causal effect of long-term ozone exposure on respiratory mortality. By employing an … mortality by 0.062 0.066 standard deviations. The findings indicate that long-term ozone exposure increases mortality from both …

information about preferences and subjective mortality expectations from the Health and Retirement Study merged with detailed …This study investigates how subjective mortality expectations and heterogeneity in time and risk preferences affect the … choices vary with subjective mortality rates in a way that is consistent with the life cycle model; 2) different answers to …

This paper contributes to the literature on public health communication by studying how the framing of a message …

underlying health. We test this hypothesis by using the sudden arrival of a new treatment in 1995 that dramatically increased … still in good health but who differed in their access to the new treatment. Those with access to treatment work …

of the global emissions of some pollutants. However, there is little evidence on the health consequences of open … on adult health, human capital, and labor market outcomes, this suggests open-air waste burning imposes significant costs …

representative cohorts of children born to the NLSY respondents over time with detailed information on families, locations, health …