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Air pollution, foetal mortality, and long-term health: Evidence from the Great London Smog
Ball, Alastair - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
stillbirth, and for the long-term health and labour market outcomes of those that survive. Variation in in utero exposure comes … district and quarter of birth, and their health and labour market outcomes observed at fifty and sixty years old. Differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212579
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Air Pollution and Procyclical Mortality
Heutel, Garth; Ruhm, Christopher - Economics Department, Bryan School of Business and Economics - 2013
studies in the economics and public health literatures measuring the mortality effects of air pollution. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010840010
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Co-Benefits of Climate Change Mitigation Policies: Literature Review and New Results
Bollen, Johannes; Guay, Bruno; Jamet, Stéphanie; … - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2009
There are local air pollution benefits from pursuing greenhouse gases emissions mitigation policies, which lower the net costs of emission reductions and thereby may strengthen the incentives to participate in a global climate change mitigation agreement. The main purpose of this paper is to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005046248
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Aircraft Noise, Health, and Residential Sorting: Evidence from Two Quasi-Experiments
Boes, Stefan; Nüesch, Stephan; Stillman, Steven - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We explore two unexpected changes in flight regulations to identify the causal effect of aircraft noise on health …. Detailed yearly noise metrics are linked with panel data on health outcomes using exact address information. Controlling for … headaches. Our pooled models substantially underestimate the detrimental health effects, which suggests that individuals self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010682658
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Aircraft noise, health, and residential sorting: evidence from two quasi-experiments.
Boes, Stefan; Nuesch, Stephan; Stillman, Steve - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2012
We explore two unexpected changes in flight regulations to identify the causal effect of aircraft noise on health …. Detailed yearly noise metrics are linked with panel data on health outcomes using exact address information. Controlling for … headaches. Our pooled models substantially underestimate the detrimental health effects, which suggests that individuals self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010602583
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Long-Term Health Effects of Vietnam-Era Military Service: A Quasi-Experiment Using Australian Conscription Lotteries
Johnston, David W.; Shields, Michael A.; Siminski, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
This paper estimates the long-term health effects of Vietnam-Era military service using Australia's National … conscription lotteries for identification. Our primary contribution is the quality and breadth of our health outcomes. We use … significant detrimental effects on a number of morbidity measures. Hearing and mental health appear to be particularly affected. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011183123
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China’s Great Convergence and Beyond
Storesletten, Kjetil; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - In: Annual Review of Economics 6 (2014) 1, pp. 333-362
A recent wave of economic research has studied the transformation of China from a poor country in the 1970s to a middle-income economy today. Based on this literature, we discuss the factors driving China’s development process. We provide a historical account of China’s rise, fall, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886217
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The Effects of the War in Iraq on Nutrition and Health: An Analysis Using Anthropometric Outcomes of Children
Guerrero-Serdán, Gabriela - Households in Conflict Network - 2009
The war in Iraq initiated in March 2003 triggered a wave of violence and turmoil in the country, exposing households to … the most affected. Using the different intensities of the conflict across areas and the age at exposure to the war among … cohorts, I analyze a possible causal effect of the war on nutritional outcomes of children. I use two empirical strategies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008534074
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The Effects of the War in Iraq on Nutrition and Health: An Analysis Using Anthropometric Outcomes of Children
Guerrero-Serdán, Gabriela - Department of Economics, Royal Holloway University of London - 2009
The war in Iraq initiated in March 2003 triggered a wave of violence and turmoil in the country, exposing households to … the most affected. Using the different intensities of the conflict across areas and the age at exposure to the war among … cohorts, I analyze a possible causal effect of the war on nutritional outcomes of children. I use two empirical strategies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005677853
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Individual Behavior as a Pathway between Early-Life Shocks and Adult Health: Evidence from Hunger Episodes in Post-War Germany
Kesternich, Iris; Siflinger, Bettina; Smith, James P.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We investigate long-run effects of episodes of hunger experienced as a child on health status and behavioral outcomes … part of SHARE in Europe in 2009, with administrative data on food supply (caloric rations) in post-war Germany. The data … suggest that individual behavior is a pathway between early life shocks and adult health: We find that those who experienced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010709719