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the effects of air quality on children's health. The IV estimates show that the respiratory illness health care visit rate …. Importantly, by linking the health care data to detailed records of parental background characteristics, we show that children …
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This paper studies the interplay between climate, health, and the economy in a stylized world with eleven heterogeneous … regions, with special emphasis on USA, Europe, China, India, and Africa. We introduce health impacts into a simple economic … respond in the same way to climate change. In particular, emission abatement rates and health costs depend on the economic and …
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The paper estimates the effect of SO2 pollution on infant mortality in Germany, 1985–2003. To avoid endogeneity problems, I exploit the natural experiment created by the mandated desulfurization at power plants and power plants’ location and prevailing wind directions, which together...
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This paper presents a new set of estimates of exposure to air pollution (fine particulate matter - PM2.5) at the city, regional and national levels for the 34 OECD countries, and at the regional and national levels for Brazil, China, India, Russia and South Africa. The estimates are developed by...
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but others, including greenhouse gas emissions, continue to rise. Poor air and water quality threaten human health, create …
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