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This paper estimates the effect of early lead exposure on academic achievement and adult earnings. We analyze longitudinal information from individuals attending primary and secondary schools in the city of Arica (in northern Chile). Between 1984 and 1989, Arica received more than 20,000 tons of...

La contaminación del aire no sólo reduce la calidad de vida de la población, también afecta su economía pues influye sobre la fracción del gasto familiar que se destina al cuidado de la salud. A partir de un modelo de optimización del bienestar familiar, el estudio busca estimar la...

Integrated assessment frameworks which can account comprehensively for the benefits related to water quality improvements have not yet been established. The main challenge is to link economic valuation with hydrological data in an appropriate way. We here explore the so-called 'impact pathway...

Road traffic noise is one of the main concerns of large cities. Most of them have classified their territory in acoustic areas and have constructed strategic noise maps. From both sources we have elaborated seven types of acoustic neighbourhoods according to both their noise gap in regard to the...

Estimating the economic benefits of reduced health damages due to improvements in environmental quality continues to challenge economists. We review welfare measures associated with reduced wildfire smoke exposure, and a unique dataset from California’s Station Fire of 2009 allows for a...

Numerous nonmarket valuation studies have examined the impacts of environmental commodities on house prices, but little attention has been given to how shifts in these commodities affect the occurrence of home transactions, and the resulting welfare implications. Using a novel theoretical...

After Romania joined the European Union, the whole system of statistical indicators, and implicitly the system of environmental protection has been constantly confronted, in statistical terms, with the EU-27 average (EU-28, after the 1st of January, 2014), namely the dynamics, the levels and...

Als wirksamstes Mittel zur Beschränkung des weltweiten Ausstoßes von Treibhausgasen – insbesondere von CO2 – und somit zur Bekämpfung des Klimawandels wird gemeinhin die Einführung eines weltweit gültigen Emissionshandelssystems angesehen. Ein solches System beschränkt effektiv den...