This paper produces the first large-scale estimates of the US health related welfare costs due to climate change. The … full welfare impact will be reflected in health outcomes and increased consumption of goods that preserve individuals …' health. Using the presumably random year-to-year variation in temperature and two state of the art climate models, the …

We examine the effects of total suspended particulates (TSPs) air pollution on infant health using the air quality … instrumental variable for TSPs changes to estimate their impact on infant mortality changes in the first year that the 1970 CAAA … was in force. TSPs nonattainment status is associated with sharp reductions in both TSPs pollution and infant mortality …

Poor water quality and sanitation are leading causes of mortality and disease in developing countries. However …, interventions providing toilets in rural areas have not substantially improved health, likely because of incomplete coverage and low …

Poor water quality and sanitation are leading causes of mortality and disease in developing countries. However …, interventions providing toilets in rural areas have not substantially improved health, likely because of incomplete coverage and low …

Poor water quality and sanitation are leading causes of mortality and disease in developing countries. However …, interventions providing toilets in rural areas have not substantially improved health, likely because of incomplete coverage and low …

estimate that by themselves these infant mortality benefits generated a welfare gain of more than $7 billion (2005$) for 1965 …

housing markets and infant health, we find that: toxic air emissions affect air quality only within 1 mile of the plant; plant …

to electricity and health care seem not to affect mortality on extremely hot days. Residential AC appears to be both the … comprehensive set of data files ever compiled on mortality and its determinants over the course of the 20th century, this paper … makes two primary discoveries. First, we find that the mortality effect of an extremely hot day declined by about 80 …

but statistically insignificant decline in infant mortality. In contrast, the water regulations had no measurable benefits …