-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 …

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 …

Fine particulate pollution (PM2.5) is a leading mortality risk factor in the People's Republic of China (PRC) and many … results indicate that cities in the PRC should accelerate the fine particulate pollution control process and implement more …

We estimate the causal impact of air pollution on the incidence of sick leaves in a representative panel of employees … workers with low job security. Our estimates are instrumental for quantifying air pollution damages due to changes in labor …

We estimate the causal impact of air pollution on the incidence of sick leaves in a representative panel of employees … workers with low job security. Our estimates are instrumental for quantifying air pollution damages due to changes in labor …

robust to a host of sensitivity tests. These results suggest that air pollution plays an important role in mediating the …

only temporary, these improvements could have longer-lasting effects on policy by making chronic air pollution more salient … econometric models to estimate the effect of Bogotás lockdown on fine particulate pollution, epidemiological models to simulate … the effect of reductions in that pollution on long-term and short-term mortality, and benefit transfer methods to estimate …

Purpose: Air pollution and its adverse health effects result in an economic cost to society. Given that the burden of … estimate the economic cost of the health impact from exposure to ground-level ozone, and ambient and household PM2.5 air … pollution, as well as their joint effects, in Greece. Design/methodology/approach: We analyze the economic cost of the health …

role in marginal health costs. Once high levels of air pollution continue to a second day and after, marginal responses of … find that higher levels of air pollution significantly increase daily hospital visits and medical costs. The elderly bear … pollution episodes that extend for more than a single day suggest that the duration of air pollution also plays an important …