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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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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 …
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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 …
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-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 …
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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 …
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This study examines the uneven effects of air pollution from maritime ports on physical and mental health across racial … traffic influences air pollution and human health. We find that one additional vessel in a port over a year leads to 3 …-related environmental regulation and show that the policy can help alleviate racial inequalities in health outcomes. …
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-being, in particular with life satisfaction, as well as mental and physical health. The effects are strongest for residents who … are older, accounting for up to a third of the size of the effect of being unemployed on life satisfaction. Using data …
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health. We estimate the causal effect of the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe after 20 years by linking geographic variation in …
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health. We estimate the causal effect of the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe after 20 years by linking geographic variation in …
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