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In this paper, we explore the economic impact of promotion and realization of an electric vehicle society (EVS) in Toyohashi City in Japan. More concretely, this paper emphasizes a computable general equilibrium (CGE) modeling approach to evaluate the following issues: economic impacts of...
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data from Italy, suggests that high wind speed can reduce air pollution commingled with viral agents and as a consequence … atmospheric pollution and atmospheric circulation in the transmission dynamics of the novel Coronavirus to support appropriate …
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The objective of this paper is to establish whether the estimated relationship between environmental degradation and per capita income corroborates the inverted U-shape hypothesis as exemplified by the Environmental Kuznets curves (EKCs) in selected ECOWAS countries. Considering two variants of...
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We investigate the effect of pollution on worker productivity in the service sector by focusing on two call centers in … China. Using precise measures of each worker's daily output linked to daily measures of pollution and meteorology, we find … that higher levels of air pollution decrease worker productivity by reducing the number of calls that workers complete each …
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pollutants on health. To circumvent this, we use emissions from Kīlauea volcano, uncorrelated with other pollution sources, to … young. No strong effects for SO2 pollution or cardiovascular outcomes are found. Since 2008, the volcano has increased …
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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 …
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estimates the health effects of air pollution in South Korea while controlling for avoidance behaviors. In particular, I … endogeneity of air pollution, this paper applies the historical average concentration of air pollution that includes rich … information about the meteorological and geographical factors that affect regional air pollution levels as an instrumental …
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ambient air pollution on population health. For Germany and the years 1999 to 2008, we link the universe of all 170 million … hospital admissions, along with all 8 million deaths, with weather and pollution data reported at the day-county level. Extreme … simultaneous weather and pollution conditions. We find strong evidence for "harvesting", and that the instantaneous heat …
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better inform policymakers aiming at reducing industrial air pollution exposure in Russia …
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We empirically examine how fine particulate matter (PM2.5) pollution affects labor supply in Japan. The effects of PM2 ….5 pollution could be mixed. While adverse health effects of PM2.5 pollution can lead to reduced labor supply, workers can rather … supply in a country with moderate levels of pollution. We use a monthly panel dataset covering entire Japan in 2013–2017 and …
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