Using detailed data on the beneficiaries of the Korean National Health Insurance Service (c.2006-2015), this paper estimates the health effects of air pollution in South Korea while controlling for avoidance behaviors. In particular, I investigate changes in the respiratory hospitalization rates...

We study the effect of information provision on avoidance behavior, using China's staggered roll-out of air pollution information and a unique dataset of high-frequency mask purchase transactions. Employing a generalized difference-in-differences approach, we estimate that the provision of air...

We empirically examine how fine particulate matter (PM2.5) pollution affects labor supply in Japan. The effects of PM2.5 pollution could be mixed. While adverse health effects of PM2.5 pollution can lead to reduced labor supply, workers can rather increase labor supply if their productivity...

This paper estimates the effects of wind direction on ambient air quality in South Korea (c.2006-2014) in order to provide insights into the impacts of the long-range transport of air pollutants from China. I find that the effect of transboundary air pollutants from China accounts for 19 percent...

In this paper, we study the short-term effect of fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) exposure on respiratory Emergency Room (ER) visits in Chile, a middle-income country with high levels of air pollution. To instrument for PM 2.5 we use wind speed at different altitudes (pressure levels). Unlike...

In this paper, we evaluate potential benefits of drinking water infrastructure investments in the United States. We first estimate willingness-to-pay for high-quality drinking water using consumer avoidance behavior in response to health-based drinking water quality violations. We find a modest...

We’ve been encouraged to think that climate change is just caused by the excess anthropogenic emission of carbon dioxide and methane, and that the impacts can be mitigated by reducing our emission of the greenhouse gases. This is not going to work…..The entire world has over-focused on...

Despite evidence showing that early life environments influence adult outcomes, there is no evidence that early life circumstances could cause addiction. Studying the long-term effects of a severe food shortage in Iran, caused by WWII, on people born between September 1941 and 1943, we find that...

Air pollution remains one of the most challenging environmental phenomena. Despite its importance in impacting various facets of everyday life, there is a paucity ofwell-identified air pollution estimates on short-term outcomes for developing countries. Using novel data, I provide detailed...

This study evaluates the tradeoff between agricultural production and water quality for individual producers using an integrated economic-biophysical hybrid genetic algorithm. We apply a multi-input, multi-output profit maximization model to detailed farm-level production data from the Oregon...