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Air pollution results in high economic costs arising from its negative impacts on human health, especially in urban … positive health impacts. The magnitude of the decline depends on personal life circumstances: For example, there are stronger … health advantages of LEZs to the population or utilizing transfer mechanisms such as public transport vouchers could mitigate …
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evidence of health benefits. The decline in well-being is especially pronounced in the first year after policy implementation …
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Does exposure to air pollution impact mental health? This paper uses administrative health insurance data to estimate … the long-term cumulative effects of air pollution exposure on mental health outcomes. For identification, we exploit the …. We find that LEZs reduce various air pollutants and improve the population's mental health measured by depression and …
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adults' well-being indirectly through the health of their children. Results show that ozone decreases the well-being of … workdays to care for a sick child, providing evidence on the children's health channel to adults' welfare losses. …
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We examine the persistence of the impact of early-life exposure to air pollution on children's health from birth to … school enrollment using administrative public health insurance records covering one third of all children in Germany. For … medication for at least five years. The initially latent health response materializes only gradually in lower medication usage …
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Many recent writings in health policy have proposed that health be valued directly and in monetary terms using the new … may be for the evaluation process. To shed light on this issue, monetary values for a number of health problems are … consistency of health impacts within each well-being measure, hugely different monetary valuations are obtained for the same …
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Using a stacked differences-in-differences approach, we study the effects of Low Emission Zones (LEZs) in Germany. The implementation of stage 1 and 2 LEZs, which banned the most pollution-intensive vehicles from city centers, significantly reduced PM10 concentrations. The most restrictive third...
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designated areas and have been shown to improve population health. Little is known about the effects of driving restriction … ausgewiesenen Gebieten abhalten und nachweislich die Gesundheit der Bevölkerung verbessern. Über die Auswirkungen von Fahrverboten …
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Pursuant to the growth of society, against the boosting of scientific and technological progress, also arises the negative effect of pollution acceleration. In this context, we relate to risks that imply the growth of pollution, especially against nuisance air pollution increase (CO, SO2, NO...
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