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results imply that public health policy that reduced childhood lead levels in the 1990s was responsible for modest but … standardized tests by 1 to 2 percentage points. Public health policy targeting lead thus has clear potential to improve academic …
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and health technologies in real-world settings where behavior may temper impacts, and to test them over a long enough …It is conventional wisdom that it is possible to reduce exposure to indoor air pollution, improve health outcomes, and … lung functioning or health and there is no change in fuel consumption (and presumably greenhouse gas emissions). The …
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. A natural question is whether further reductions will yield additional health benefits. We further this research by … air pollution levels, and (2) what is the impact of modern air pollution levels on infant health? Our setting is …
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to poor health among infants …
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spring of 2020. This paper examines the impact that these actions had on emissions and expected health effects through …
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We find that long-term exposure to fine-particulate air pollution (PM2.5) degrades health and human capital among older …' cumulative residential exposures to PM2.5 and their health from 2004 through 2013, leveraging within- and between-county quasi …
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We conduct the first study on the impacts of prenatal exposure to a uniquely identified large polluter, a coal-fired power plant located near the border of two states, on the birth outcomes of the downwind state. For mothers who live as far as 20 to 40 miles away but downwind of the power plant,...
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separate positive effect on fetal health. We show that Korean women do not time their pregnancy according to expected yellow … provide evidence for the effectiveness of pollution alert systems in promoting public health. They also underline the …. Specifically, we show that the estimated impact of air pollution on infant health is reduced by half when the preventive effect of …
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The events of 9/11 released a million tons of toxic dust into lower Manhattan, an unparalleled environmental disaster. It is puzzling then that the literature has shown little effect of fetal exposure to the dust. However, inference is complicated by pre-existing differences between the affected...
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This study examines the effects of a congestion tax in central Stockholm on ambient air pollution and the health of … conditions. As the change in health was more gradual than the change in pollution, it may take time for the full health effects … programs may understate long-run health benefits …
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