adults' well-being indirectly through the health of their children. Results show that ozone decreases the well-being of …This paper uses a panel of German individuals and highly granular pollution data to test if air pollution affects … sulfur dioxide. Concerning the mechanism, we find that above-median earners drive this effect and that ozone causes losses in …

government over the period 2010 to 2013, to test the joint hypotheses that (1) atmospheric ozone production in the São Paulo … use in the gasoline-ethanol vehicle fleet leads to higher ozone concentrations in urban São Paulo's ambient air. We adopt … a regression discontinuity design (RDD) and flexibly test each discontinuity separately. Our finding that ozone levels …

Ground-level ozone is a continuing problem worldwide, but research on the influences of ozone pollution on labour … productivity in developing countries is insufficient. We investigate the effect of ozone pollution on outdoor worker productivity …. Using an instrumental variable constructed from ozone pollution of upwind nearby cities, we find that a one …

individuals' well-being. However, how do individuals value the environment? In this paper, we review the Life Satisfaction …-being research in economics and takes measures of reported life satisfaction as an empirical approximation to individual welfare …. Micro-econometric life satisfaction functions are estimated taking into account environmental conditions along with income …

pollution on several key dimensions, including mental health status, depressive symptoms, moment-to-moment happiness, and … life satisfaction has little to do with the immediate air quality. Our results shed light on air pollution as an important …Previous studies evaluating the welfare cost of air pollution have not paid much attention to its potential effect on …

compliance and pollution levels in the context of monitors for tropospheric ozone (O3). Using a panel dataset of monitors in the …The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) maintains networks of pollution monitors for two basic purposes: to … pollution and its effects. These purposes imply conflicting criteria for the locations of a limited number of monitors. To check …

In light of the low public awareness of ozone pollution and the potential health threats posed by long-term ozone … exposure, this study estimates the causal effect of long-term ozone exposure on respiratory mortality. By employing an … instrumental variable based on the long-distance transmission of ozone from upwind neighbor counties, we discover that an increase …

study evaluates the health effect of ozone pollution on emergency room admission and medical expenditure. We present strong … results, but ozone pollution has increased significantly. Using a unique diagnostic data of a peninsula city in China, this … evidence that ozone has a significant negative impact on health. Specifically, one standard deviation increase in ozone …

-in-differences designs, we show that previous estimates of the policy's impact on traffic-related air pollution significantly underestimate … ozone due to changes in the chemical balance with precursor contaminants. Policy effects are heterogeneous by season, with … greater decreases in traffic pollutants during winter and increases in ozone during spring and summer. Using individual …

Air pollution results in high economic costs arising from its negative impacts on human health, especially in urban … unintended adverse effects on secondary contaminants like ozone and on air pollution in adjacent areas. New evidence based on … analyses in this Weekly Report confirm that LEZs reduce traffic-related air pollution. However, the analyses also reveal …