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Impact of Pollution from Coal on the Anemic Status of Children and Women: Evidence from India
Datt, Gaurav; Maitra, Pushkar; Menon, Nidhiya; Ray, Ranjan - 2020
pollution generated by coal fueled power units on the anemic status of children and women in India. We show that among very … young children (aged 0–5 years), the number of coal units in the district in the month and year of birth significantly … increasing demand for energy that emerging market economies like India face. …
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Technological Advance, Social Fragmentation and Welfare
Bosworth, Steven J.; Snower, Dennis J. - 2021
This paper models the welfare consequences of social fragmentation arising from technological advance. We start from the premise that technological progress falls primarily on market-traded commodities rather than prosocial relationships, since the latter intrinsically require the expenditure of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497943
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Height, Weight and Well-Being for Rural, Urban and Migrant Workers in China
Lee, Wang-Sheng; Zhao, Zhong - 2015
-being. In this paper, we examine the link between weight, height and well-being for three distinct samples in China given that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401651
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Stature and Life-Time Labor Market Outcomes: Accounting for Unobserved Differences
Böckerman, Petri; Vainiomäki, Jari - 2013
height on life-time labor market outcomes. The use of twin data allows us to remove otherwise unobserved ability and other … significant height-wage premium for women but not for men. This result implies that cognitive ability explains the effect of … height on life-time earnings for men. Additional findings using capital income as the outcome variable suggest that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319412
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Stature and Life-Time Labor Market Outcomes: Accounting for Unobserved Differences
Böckerman, Petri; Vainiomäki, Jari - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
height on life-time labor market outcomes. The use of twin data allows us to remove otherwise unobserved ability and other … significant height-wage premium for women but not for men. This result implies that cognitive ability explains the effect of … height on life-time earnings for men. Additional findings using capital income as the outcome variable suggest that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884131
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Arsenic Contamination of Drinking Water and Mental Health
Chowdhury, Shyamal; Krause, Annabelle; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2015
This paper investigates the effect of drinking arsenic contaminated water on mental health. Drinking water with an unsafe arsenic level for a prolonged period can lead to arsenicosis, which includes symptoms such as black spots on the skin and subsequent illnesses such as various cancers. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401675
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Dirty Density: Air Quality and the Density of American Cities
Carozzi, Felipe; Roth, Sefi - 2020
In this paper we study the effect of urban density on the exposure of city dwellers to air pollution using data from the United States urban system. Exploiting geological features to instrument for density, we find an economically and statistically significant pollution-density elasticity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207872
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Deregulation in a Time of Pandemic: Does Pollution Increase Coronavirus Cases or Deaths?
Persico, Claudia; Johnson, Kathryn R. - 2020
The COVID-19 virus, also known as the coronavirus, is currently spreading around the world. While a growing literature suggests that exposure to pollution can cause respiratory illness and increase deaths among the elderly, little is known about whether increases in pollution could cause...
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The Long-Term Health Impact of Agent Orange: Evidence from the Vietnam War
Le, Duong Trung; Pham, Thanh Minh; Polachek, Solomon - 2021
find significant detrimental impact on those born before herbicide missions ended, especially among wartime children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882358
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Air Quality and Suicide
Persico, Claudia L; Marcotte, Dave E. - 2022
Though there is clinical evidence linking pollution induced inflammatory factors and major depression and suicide, no definitive study of risk in the community exists. In this study, we provide the first population-based estimates of the relationship between air pollution and suicide in the...
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