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Are Current Levels of Air Pollution in England Too High? The Impact of Pollution on Population Mortality

Janke, Katharina - 2014

We examine the relationship between common sources of airborne pollution and population mortality in present day … associated with excess deaths. We examine all cause mortality and deaths from specific cardiovascular and respiratory causes that … associated with higher mortality rates. The size of the effects we find translates into around 4,500 deaths per annum …

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Are current levels of air pollution in England too high?The impact of pollution on population mortality

Janke, Katharina; Propper, Carol; Henderson, John - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

We examine the relationship between common sources of airborne pollution and population mortality in present day … with excess deaths. We examine all cause mortality and deaths from specific cardiovascular and respiratory causes that are … associated with higher mortality rates. The size of the effects we find translates into around 4,500 deaths per annum.[...] …

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Information and Vaccine Hesitancy: The Role of Broadband Internet

Amaral-Garcia, Sofia; Nardotto, Mattia; Propper, Carol; … - 2024

We examine the effect of internet diffusion on the uptake of an important public health intervention: the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine. We study England between 2000 and 2011 when internet diffusion spread rapidly and there was a high profile medical article (falsely) linking the MMR...

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Mums Go Online: Is the Internet Changing the Demand for Healthcare?

Amaral-Garcia, Sofia; Nardotto, Mattia; Propper, Carol; … - 2020

We study the effect of internet diffusion on childbirth procedures performed in England between 2000 and 2011. We exploit an identification strategy based on geographical discontinuities in internet access generated by technological factors. We show that broadband internet access increased...

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