emissions, a key ingredient in ozone formation. A rich quasi-experiment reveals that it decreased summertime ozone …

governments establish the optimal city size when production processes involve environmental pollution. Our analysis delivers two … key insights. First, if an optimal scheme to regulate environmental pollution is implemented, cities chosen by local … governments are never too large. They are too small if pollution is purely global, but at the optimal size, if pollution is purely …

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 …

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 …

births where one or more child was exposed to TRI pollution during gestation and other siblings were not exposed because the … exposed prenatally to TRI pollution have lower wages, are more likely to be in poverty as adults, have fewer years of …

Car exhaust is a major source of air pollution, but little is known about its impacts on population health. We exploit … the dispersion of emissions-cheating diesel cars - which secretly polluted up to 150 times as much as gasoline cars … - across the United States from 2008-2015 as a natural experiment to measure the health impact of car pollution. Using the …

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 …

This paper examines the extent to which the 2005 Clean Air Act introduced in South Korea affected air pollution and …

This is the first study that uses a direct measure of skyglow, an important aspect of light pollution, to examine its … add to the literature on the impact of in utero and early-life exposure to pollution, which thus far has focused primarily … on air pollution.The unique feature of our identification strategy to determine a causal effect is the application of …