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Ground-level ozone has been shown to have significant negative health externalities from short-term exposure, and as … such has been regulated by the U.S. Clean Air Act since the 1970s. Ozone is not emitted directly; instead formation occurs … of ozone precursors and not when these emissions occur. Using hourly data on ambient ozone from 1980-2017 near the U …
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Although pollution is widespread, there is little evidence about how it might harm children's long run outcomes. Using … pollution have lower wages, are more likely to be in poverty as adults, have fewer years of completed education, and are less …
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-resolution pollution transport model. Between 2000-2018, PM2.5 concentrations from electricity fell by 89% for the average individual, more … air pollution policies and recent coal-to-natural gas fuel switching have played major roles in reducing U.S. racial …/ethnic pollution disparities from electricity. While we detect similarly large PM2.5 improvements for the average low and high income …
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Literature has shown that air pollution can have short- and long-term adverse effects on physiological and cognitive … related to productivity losses in the labor market. Using data from all construction sites and pollution monitoring stations … in Israel, we find a strong and significant connection between air pollution and construction site accidents. We find …
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Although at least 400 million people suffer from seasonal allergies worldwide, the adverse effects of pollen on "non-health …
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understanding of the impacts of climate change on wildfire smoke and health remains highly uncertain. We quantify the past and …-century, comparable to the estimated sum of all other damages in the US in prior analyses. Our research suggests that the health cost of …
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We study the relationship between water nutrient pollution and U.S. agriculture using data between the early 1970s and …
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Environmental policy is increasingly concerned with measuring emissions resulting from local changes to electricity consumption. These marginal emissions are challenging to measure because electricity grids encompass multiple locations and the information available to identify the effect of each...
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We study exposure to pollution information and investment portfolio allocations, exploiting the rollout of air quality … are negatively related to local air pollution after a monitoring station appears nearby, with particularly pronounced … effects on ``alert'' dates when air quality is listed as harmful to the general population. The effect of pollution …
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Despite significant economic growth, child development outcomes in India remain poor. Using a large-scale experiment in which randomly-selected mothers receive cash transfers for the first two years of their child's life, we examine the relationship between income and child development in the...
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