Air pollution was severe in many urban areas of the United States in the first half of the twentieth century, in part …

and temporal resolution. Then, we link inversion episode data to ground level pollution monitors and to daily in- and … from low-income households suffer significantly more from air pollution than children from high income households. Finally … pollution across children in rich and poor households. …

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 …

While there is a large body of literature on the negative health effects of air pollution, there is much less written … cumulative exposure to air pollution on cognitive performance based on a nationally representative survey in China. By merging a … find that contemporaneous and cumulative exposure to air pollution impedes both verbal and math scores of survey subjects …

and epidemiologic evidence linking air pollution, cognition performance and real-world decision making, we first … illustrate key physiological and psychological pathways between air pollution and cognition. We then document the main patterns … of air pollution affecting cognitive test performance by type of cognitive tests, gender, window of exposure, age profile …

mortality. We assess the role of three broad factors: i) pre-pandemic population health and poverty, ii) air pollution, and iii … the distribution of coal-fired electricity generating capacity, an important source of urban air pollution, had 9.1 excess …

We provide the first study estimating the causal effect of air pollution on body weight. Using the China Health and … 1989-2011, we find significant positive effects of air pollution, instrumented by thermal inversions, on body mass index … identifies a new cause of obesity, and sheds new light on the morbidity cost of air pollution. …