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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 …
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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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We study how ambient lead exposure impacts learning in elementary school by leveraging a natural experiment where a large national automotive racing organization switched from leaded to unleaded fuel. We find increased levels and duration of exposure to lead negatively affect academic...
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and temporal resolution. Then, we link inversion episode data to ground level pollution monitors and to daily in- and … the effects 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 children …
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representative cohorts of children born to the NLSY respondents over time with detailed information on families, locations, health … births where one or more child was exposed to TRI pollution during gestation and other siblings were not exposed because the … exposed prenatally to TRI pollution have lower wages, are more likely to be in poverty as adults, have fewer years of …
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We investigate the impact of fetal exposure to air pollution on health outcomes at birth in Italy in the 2000s … overall health status at birth. These effects are mainly driven by pollution exposure during the third trimester of pregnancy … quality monitors. The potential endogeneity deriving from differential pollution exposure is addressed by exploiting as …
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representative cohorts of children born to the NLSY respondents over time with detailed information on families, locations, health … births where one or more child was exposed to TRI pollution during gestation and other siblings were not exposed because the … exposed prenatally to TRI pollution have lower wages, are more likely to be in poverty as adults, have fewer years of …
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Although pollution is widespread, there is little evidence about how it might harm children's long run outcomes. Using … pollution have lower wages, are more likely to be in poverty as adults, have fewer years of completed education, and are less …
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This paper examines the impact of outdoor and indoor pollution on children’s health from birth until the age of three …. Secondly, we are able to follow the effect of pollution exposure on a child’s health during the first three years of life … significantly negative impact for some pollutants on infant health during early childhood. In comparison to outdoor pollution …
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This paper examines the impact of outdoor and indoor pollution on children’s health from birth until the age of three …. Secondly, we are able to follow the effect of pollution exposure on a child’s health during the first three years of life … significantly negative impact for some pollutants on infant health during early childhood. In comparison to outdoor pollution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014189788