A pervasive problem in the literature on the health costs of pollution is that optimizing individuals may compensate … for increases in pollution by reducing their exposure to protect their health. This implies that estimates of the health … effects of ozone on respiratory related health conditions using daily boat arrivals and departures into the two major ports of …

determinant of shipping costs. Improving port efficiency from the 25th to the 75th percentile reduces shipping costs by 12 percent ….S. markets than import tariffs. We investigate the determinants of shipping costs to the U.S. with a large database of more than … world. Distance volumes and product characteristics matter. In addition, we find that ports efficiency is an important …

health outcomes in cities distant from where trade activities occur. We examine Brazil, which has ramped up agricultural … respiratory causes. Our estimates reveal a large telecoupled health externality of trade deforestation: over 700,000 premature …

We examine the effects of total suspended particulates (TSPs) air pollution on infant health using the air quality …

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 …

cost to health …

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 …