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speculate that the Food and Drug Administration's prominent 2001 mercury in fish advisory may have harmed public health. Lower … mercury intakes reduce neurological toxicity risks. However, since seafood is the predominant dietary source of healthful …-parametric changes-in-changes approach. We find strong evidence that while the advisory reduced mercury loadings, it did so at the …
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Mercury exposure has emerged as one of the most prominent environmental health and food safety concerns. The primary … advisory reduce mercury exposure to at-risk groups? We find that consumers most likely to be aware of and understand the …. Disturbingly, we do not find a response to the mercury advisory among the relatively large group of at-risk households which met …
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individuals who cause it. For instance, urban fuel consumers generate greater pollution damages compared to rural consumers, but …
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This paper examines the causal effects of air pollution on the household consumption of water and electricity in … Singapore. Using the transboundary haze pollution caused by forest fires in Indonesia as an exogenous shock, we find that … efforts in mitigating health risks associated with air pollution. Moreover, the analysis of social media data shows that the …
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pollution. I access longitudinal data for Singapore, a newly affluent Asian city nation and arguably a harbinger of what is to … air conditioning, with widely varying particle pollution. Overall, residential electricity demand overall grows by 1 ….1% when PM2.5 rises by 10 ug/m3. I compare the pollution-electricity response to the well-known heat-electricity response, and …
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survey statistics and environmental pollution satellite accounts into an environmental extended input-output model. We also …
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We investigate whether climate activism favors pro-environmental consumption by examining the impact of Fridays for Future (FFF) protests in Italy on second-hand automobile transactions in the strike-affected areas. Leveraging data on 10 million automobile transactions occurring before and after...
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individuals who cause it. For instance, urban fuel consumers generate greater pollution damages compared to rural consumers, but …
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Long-term exposure to air pollutant concentrations is known to cause chronic lung inflammation, a condition that may promote increased severity of COVID-19 syndrome caused by the novel coronavirus. In this paper, we empirically investigate the ecologic association between longterm exposure to...
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Exposure to smoggy days is a common part of urban life, but can be avoided by vulnerable populations with municipal investment in warnings. This paper provides the first evidence on the long-term effects of early exposure to smog. Variation comes from exposure to the Great London Smog of 1952....
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