), we examine the impact of exposure to excessive noise levels on birth outcomes. Using birth records that include mothers … mothers living near the airport in the direction of the runway. We utilize exogenous variation in noise exposure triggered by … NextGen, which unintentionally increased noise in communities affected by the new flight patterns. Our finding informs policy …

levels. The outline of the paper is as follows. First, we combine a set of noise and air pollutants measured at a number of …

performance. Measured performance equals actual performance plus noise. We compare a stable environment where the noise is small … with a volatile environment where the noise is large. Subjects exert significantly more effort in the volatile environment …

methods to disentangle the offsetting noise and accessibility effects of one technology of mass transit, metro rail, analyzing … land prices (house prices) by 21% (5%), while a 10 db increase in noise depreciates land prices (house prices) by 5% (1 …%). We show that these effects are underestimated by 40% (access) to 80% (noise) if they are not estimated conditional on …

We investigate strategic information transmission with communication error, or noise. Our main finding is that adding … noise can improve welfare. With quadratic preferences and a uniform type distribution, welfare can be raised for almost … every bias level by introducing a sufficiently small amount of noise. Furthermore, there exists a level of noise that makes …