"The NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health provides summaries of publications like this. You can sign up to receive the … NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health by email. Airports are some of the largest sources of air pollution in the United States … contemporaneous health of residents living nearby and downwind from airports. Our research design exploits the fact that network …

excessive electromagnetic radiations from these appliances may cause potential health effects. Realizing this significance, a … propagation varies with different construction materials. Moreover, radiation associated human health impacts were also … in some countries, indicating the possible human health impacts in the assessed built environment. Hence, this study …

Demand for air quality depends on health impacts and defensive investments that improve health, but little research …, pharmaceutical expenditures, and mortality rates. Reductions in pharmaceutical purchases and mortality are each valued at $900 …

due to the burning of bituminous coal for heat. We estimate the effects of this bituminous coal consumption on mortality … within-state changes in mortality in non-winter months as an additional control group. Our estimates suggest that reductions … in the use of bituminous coal for heating between 1945 and 1960 decreased winter all-age mortality by 1.25 percent and …

mortality. We assess the role of three broad factors: i) pre-pandemic population health and poverty, ii) air pollution, and iii … uses newly assembled historical data on annual mortality across 438 U.S. cities to explore the determinants of pandemic … the distribution of pre-pandemic infant mortality had 21 excess deaths per 10,000 residents in 1918 relative to cities in …

the largest health gains during the last several decades. Nor was higher dispersion in mortality caused entirely by the …The 21st century has been a period of rising inequality in both income and health. In this study, we find that … geographic inequality in mortality for midlife Americans increased by about 70 percent from 1992 to 2016. This was not simply …