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Perceived arsenic-related mortality risks for smokers and non-smokers
Shaw, William D.; Jakus, Paul Mark; Riddel, Mary - In: Contemporary economic policy : a journal of Western … 30 (2012) 3, pp. 417-429
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009611447
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When arsenic is safer in your cup of tea than in your local water treatment plant
Umshler, Sue E. - In: Natural resources journal 39 (1999) 3, pp. 565-645
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001436333
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Drinking Water Contaminant Concentrations and Birth Outcomes
DiSalvo, Richard W.; Hill, Elaine L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Previous research in the US has found negative health effects of contamination when it triggers regulatory violations …. An important question is whether levels of contamination that do not trigger a health-based violation impact health. We … results data in Pennsylvania. We create an overall water quality index and an index specific to reproductive health. We focus …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014337800
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Cognitive disparities, lead plumbing, and water chemistry : prior exposure to water-borne lead and intelligence test scores among World War Two US Army enlistees
Ferrie, Joseph P.; Rolf, Karen; Troesken, Werner - In: Economics and human biology 10 (2012) 1, pp. 98-111
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009534921
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Cognitive disparities, lead plumbing, and water chemistry : intelligence test scores and exposure to water-borne lead among World War Two US Army enlistees
Ferrie, Joseph P.; Rolf, Karen; Troesken, Werner - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009231703
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Cognitive Disparities, Lead Plumbing, and Water Chemistry : Intelligence Test Scores and Exposure to Water-Borne Lead Among World War Two U.S. Army Enlistees
Ferrie, Joseph P. - 2011
Assessing the impact of lead exposure is difficult if individuals select on the basis of their characteristics into environments with different exposure levels. We address this issue with data from when the dangers of lead exposure were still largely unknown, using new evidence on intelligence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123313
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Pollution trends and us environmental policy : lessons from the past half century
Shapiro, Joseph S. - In: Review of environmental economics and policy 16 (2022) 1, pp. 42-61
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Pollution Trends and US Environmental Policy : Lessons from the Last Half Century
Shapiro, Joseph S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This article proposes and evaluates four hypotheses about US pollution and environmental policy over the last half century. First, air and water pollution have declined substantially, although greenhouse gas emissions have not. Second, environmental policy explains a large share of these trends....
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The regressive costs of drinking water contaminant avoidance
Hyde, Kelly - 2020
risk of adverse health outcomes. Existing literature has demonstrated that individuals respond to drinking water quality … income, bear disproportionate costs of water quality violations in the United States. Following a health-based water quality … contamination through economic channels exacerbate health disparities associated with poverty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012308031
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Cognitive Disparities, Lead Plumbing, and Water Chemistry : Intelligence Test Scores and Exposure to Water-Borne Lead Among World War Two U.S. Army Enlistees
Ferrie, Joseph P. - 2011
Assessing the impact of lead exposure is difficult if individuals select on the basis of their characteristics into environments with different exposure levels. We address this issue with data from when the dangers of lead exposure were still largely unknown, using new evidence on intelligence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461496