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gas development (commonly known as "fracking"). Colorado provides a unique research environment to study the health …
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and baseline city health conditions also contributed to pandemic severity. The effects of air pollution are quantitatively … between air pollution and infectious disease on health, and suggest that there may be large co-benefits associated with …
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representative cohorts of children born to the NLSY respondents over time with detailed information on families, locations, health …
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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 …
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representative cohorts of children born to the NLSY respondents over time with detailed information on families, locations, health …
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combine data from the National Health Interview Survey with data from US Environmental Protection Agency's Toxic Release … Inventory, using an instrumental variable approach to control for endogeneity of subjective binary health status. We find that … increases and that work days lost increase at an increasing rate with the decreased health status …
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Although pollution is widespread, there is little evidence about how it might harm children's long run outcomes. Using the detailed, geocoded data that follows national representative cohorts of children born to the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth respondents over time, I compare siblings...
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birth location in early-life health. Using a model that includes mother and location fixed effects, we find that moving from … favorably to policies that target maternal health, and could have a small, lasting effect on long-run outcomes …
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between population, education, health and social divergence and productivity. In the fourth section, three papers address the …
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A critical part of adapting to the higher temperatures that climate change brings will be the deployment of existing technologies to new sectors and regions. This paper examines the evolution of the temperature-mortality relationship over the course of the entire 20th century in the United...
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