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respondents. We examine how homeowners in the United Kingdom and Italy value mortality risk reductions by asking them to choose … among hypothetical variants of their home that differ in terms of mortality risks from air pollution and price. To our …
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mortality have a similar spatial distribution. Preliminary evidence confirms the hypothesis and suggests a positive association … of ambient PM on excess mortality in Northern Italy. …
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This paper attempts to identify the climatic effect on birth outcomes in Brazil and, thus, to predict the potential impact of climate change. Panel data models indicate that excess and lack of rainfall have the most important harmful effects on newborns' health; temperature stresses and low...
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the effect of reductions in that pollution on long-term and short-term mortality, and benefit transfer methods to estimate … the monetary value of the avoided mortality. We find that in its first year of implementation, on average, Bogotás …
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In addition to the morbidity and mortality concerns of outdoor air pollution, studies have shown that air pollution …
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Ambient air pollution is a serious problem in cities in south-central Chile because of massive combustion of wood as fuel for residential heating. To reduce air pollution emissions, Chile's environmental authority has implemented a large-scale program consisting of replacing old, highly...
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Wildfires are increasing in frequency and intensity. We study the impact of exposure to wildfires on air pollutants and on human health in Chile, finding substantial impacts on both classes of outcomes. We use data on 15 wildfire seasons (2004-2018) matched with granular (intra-day) records of...
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We provide new evidence on the causal effect of higher education on mortality. Our empirical strategy exploits the … vital statistics, we document an upward kink in the age-specific yearly mortality rate of individuals in the affected … cohorts. We estimate a negative effect of college on mortality between ages 34-74, which is larger for men, but also sizable …
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