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Benefits trickling away : the health impact of extending access to piped water and sanitation in urban Yemen

Klasen, Stephan; Lechtenfeld, Tobias; Meier, Kristina; … - 2012

This article investigates the impact of piped water supply and sanitation on health outcomes in urban Yemen using a combination of quasi-experimental methods and results from microbiological water tests. Variations in project roll-out allow separate identification of water and sanitation...

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The Impact of Oil and Gas Extraction on Infant Health

Hill, Elaine L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The benefits and costs of resource extraction are currently being hotly debated in the case of unconventional natural gas development (commonly known as "fracking"). Colorado provides a unique research environment to study the health impacts of conventional and unconventional forms of oil and...

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Lasting impact on health from natural disasters, potential mechanisms and mitigating effects

Dhamija, Gaurav; Sen, Gitanjali - In: Environment and development economics 28 (2023) 1, pp. 1-24

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Lasting impact on health from natural disasters, potential mechanisms and mitigating effects

Dhamija, Gaurav; Sen, Gitanjali - 2022

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Cash Transfers for Child Development : Experimental Evidence from India

Weaver, Jeffrey; Sukhtankar, Sandip; Niehaus, Paul; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Despite significant economic growth, child development outcomes in India remain poor. Using a large-scale experiment in … relationship between income and child development in the Indian state of Jharkhand. Treated mothers and children experienced large … explanatory factor for the poor translation of increases in income into child growth in India …

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The Effect of Poverty on the Health of Newborn Children - Evidence from Germany

Tamm, Marcus - 2014

This paper analyses the association between health outcomes of newborn children and mother's poverty status during …

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COVID-19 Mortality and Contemporaneous Air Pollution

Austin, Wes; Carattini, Stefano; Mahecha, John Gomez; … - 2021

We examine the relationship between contemporaneous fine particulate matter exposure and COVID-19 morbidity and mortality using an instrumental variable approach based on wind direction. Harnessing daily changes in county-level wind direction, we show that arguably exogenous fluctuations in...

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Health and Environmental Policies Associated with Low Fatality Rate of COVID-19

Coccia, Mario - 2021

The statistical evidence of the study here shows that countries with a low average COVID-19 fatality rate have high expenditures in health sector and a lower exposure of population to air pollution, regardless a higher percentage of population aged more than 65 years. This study suggests that...

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COVID-19 mortality and contemporaneous air pollution

Austin, Wes; Carattini, Stefano; Gomez Mahecha, John; … - 2020

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Deregulation in a time of pandemic : does pollution increase coronavirus cases or deaths?

Persico, Claudia; Johnson, Kathryn R. - 2020

The COVID-19 virus, also known as the coronavirus, is currently spreading around the world. While a growing literature suggests that exposure to pollution can cause respiratory illness and increase deaths among the elderly, little is known about whether increases in pollution could cause...

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