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evidence of health benefits. The decline in well-being is especially pronounced in the first year after policy implementation …
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We examine the persistence of the impact of early-life exposure to air pollution on children's health from birth to … school enrollment using administrative public health insurance records covering one third of all children in Germany. For … medication for at least five years. The initially latent health response materializes only gradually in lower medication usage …
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pollution levels decreased by 35% in the most affected region. Back of the envelope calculations imply accumulated health …
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endanger public safety or health. We use time-series and cross-sectional variation in powerful registry data to quantify the …
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The medical literature documents adverse health effects of acute exposure to diesel exhaust, yet quasi … differentiated impacts on the megacity's traffic, air quality and public health. We combine rich panel data on road congestion … cars responded by filling the space the diesel trucks left behind. Effects on air and health persisted thanks to the …
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exposure to polluted water on health at birth using the recent Flint water crisis as a natural experiment. Matching vital …
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Excess emissions are air pollution releases that exceed permitted levels and occur during facility start-ups, shutdowns, or malfunctions. While they are violations of the federal Clean Air Act, states have historically granted violating facilities automatic exemptions; limiting enforcement and...
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We implement a mixed method approach that combines a randomized controlled trial and qualitative data collection to assess whether, and if so how, behavioural change can be sustained. We do so in the context of Pakistan’s national sanitation strategy to combat open defecation, Community-Led...
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delivery and public health. By experimentally identifying the impact of incentives for local maintenance for both providers and …
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a public health crisis. Using the Flint Water Crisis as a natural experiment, we estimate the effect of in utero … exposure to polluted water on health at birth. Matching vital statistics birth records with various sources of data, we use a …. Finally, we find no notable change in the fertility rates of either black women or white women in Flint. These results are …
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