Showing 1 - 10 of 5,563
, hospital admissions records, and survey data on individual health outcomes, we first show that fishmeal production negatively … affects adult and child health through air pollution emitted by plants. We then analyze the industry's response to a 2009 … reform greatly exacerbated the industry's impact on health, causing a loss of about 1.4 million disability-adjusted life …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011195693
, developments in health science have undermined some of the underlying assumptions of this paradigm whilst technological emission …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010697264
eects 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 chil- dren …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010735662
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011000285
admissions records, and survey data on individual health outcomes, we first show that fishmeal production worsens adult and child … health through air pollution emitted by plants. We then analyze the industry’s response to a 2009 reform that split the Total … efficient plants expanded production (across time). The reform greatly exacerbated the industry’s impact on health, causing e …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011188508
environment, and girls in Beijing are more health conscious than boys. Some hypothesis testing results show that air pollution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011106681
This paper deals with valuing health due to air pollution in Bangladesh. Human capital is an important asset in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112247
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010931227
This paper considers the climate, health and acidification impacts associated with household-level heating technologies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011076989
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011274593