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Killing Prescriptions Softly: Low Emission Zones and Child Health from Birth to School
Klauber, Hannah; Holub, Felix; Koch, Nicolas; Pestel, Nico - 2021
We examine the persistence of the impact of early-life exposure to air pollution on children's health from birth to … school enrollment using administrative public health insurance records covering one third of all children in Germany. For … medication for at least five years. The initially latent health response materializes only gradually in lower medication usage …
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Putting different price tags on the same health condition: Re-evaluating the well-being valuation approach
Powdthavee, Nattavudh; van den Berg, Bernard - 2011
Many recent writings in health policy have proposed that health be valued directly and in monetary terms using the new … may be for the evaluation process. To shed light on this issue, monetary values for a number of health problems are … consistency of health impacts within each well-being measure, hugely different monetary valuations are obtained for the same …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278781
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Greener Fleet, Cleaner Air: How Low Emission Zones Reduce Pollution
Aydin, Eren; Gehrsitz, Markus; Traxler, Christian - 2024
Using a stacked differences-in-differences approach, we study the effects of Low Emission Zones (LEZs) in Germany. The implementation of stage 1 and 2 LEZs, which banned the most pollution-intensive vehicles from city centers, significantly reduced PM10 concentrations. The most restrictive third...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015061956
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Putting Different Price Tags on the Same Health Condition: Re-evaluating the Well-Being Valuation Approach
Powdthavee, Nattavudh; van den Berg, Bernard - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Many recent writings in health policy have proposed that health be valued directly and in monetary terms using the new … may be for the evaluation process. To shed light on this issue, monetary values for a number of health problems are … consistency of health impacts within each well-being measure, hugely different monetary valuations are obtained for the same …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008839297
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Happiness in the Air: How Does a Dirty Sky Affect Subjective Well-being?
Zhang, Xin; Zhang, Xiaobo; Chen, Xi - 2015
, mental health, and happiness. This paper attempts to fill in the gap via investigating the impact of air quality on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345378
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The Morbidity Costs of Air Pollution through the Lens of Health Spending in China
Zhang, Xin; Zhang, Xun; Liu, Yuehua; Zhao, Xintong; Chen, Xi - 2022
.5) for all age cohorts in a developing country, using individual-level health spending data from a basic medical insurance … suggest that a 10 μg/m3 reduction in monthly average PM2.5 leads to a 2.36% decrease in the value of health spending and a 0 …
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Life satisfaction and air quality in Europe
Ferreira, Susana; Akay, Alpaslan; Brereton, Finbarr; … - 2012
Concerns for environmental quality and its impact on people's welfare are fundamental arguments for the adoption of environmental legislation in most countries. In this paper, we analyse the relationship between air quality and subjective well-being in Europe. We use a unique dataset that merges...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287692
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Life Satisfaction and Air Quality in Europe
Ferreira, Susana; Akay, Alpaslan; Brereton, Finbarr; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Concerns for environmental quality and its impact on people's welfare are fundamental arguments for the adoption of environmental legislation in most countries. In this paper, we analyse the relationship between air quality and subjective well-being in Europe. We use a unique dataset that merges...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010695865
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Pollution, Infectious Disease, and Mortality: Evidence from the 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic
Clay, Karen; Lewis, Joshua; Severnini, Edson R. - 2015
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401663
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The Short-Term Population Health Effects of Weather and Pollution: Implications of Climate Change
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Schmitt, Maike; Karlsson, Martin - 2013
ambient air pollution on population health. For Germany and the years 1999 to 2008, we link the universe of all 170 million … heat significantly increases hospitalizations and deaths. Extreme cold has a negligible effect on population health. High … simultaneous weather and pollution conditions. We find strong evidence for harvesting, and that the instantaneous heat-health …
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