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When Labor Disputes Bring Cities to a Standstill: The Impact of Public Transit Strikes on Traffic, Accidents, Air Pollution, and Health
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Hener, Timo; Rainer, Helmut - CESifo - 2015
endanger public safety or health. We use time-series and cross-sectional variation in powerful registry data to quantify the …
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Nuclear Wastelands: A Global Guide to Nuclear Weapons Production and Its Health and Environmental Effects
Makhijani, Arjun (contributor); Hu, Howard (contributor);  … - The MIT Press
assembly and storage of weapons, compiling the most complete information available on the actual health and environmental …
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Make sure the kids are ok : indirect effects of ground-level ozone on well-being
Rechlitz, Julia; Sarmiento, Luis; Zaklan, Aleksandar - 2020
adults' well-being indirectly through the health of their children. Results show that ozone decreases the well-being of … workdays to care for a sick child, providing evidence on the children's health channel to adults' welfare losses. …
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Residential Noise Exposure and Health : Evidence from Aviation Noise and Birth Outcomes
Argys, Laura - 2019
-makers regarding the trade-off between flight optimization and human health …
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Low Emission Zones for Better Health : Evidence from German Hospitals
Pestel, Nico - 2019
This paper studies health effects from restricting the access of high-emission vehicles to innercities by implementing … urban areas and that these improvements in air quality translate into population health benefits. The number of diagnoses …
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The Impact of Oil and Gas Extraction on Infant Health
Hill, Elaine L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
gas development (commonly known as "fracking"). Colorado provides a unique research environment to study the health … well types. I also present results suggesting no impacts on fertility or mobility. These results are robust to multiple …
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Diffuse Factors of COVID-19 in Environment and Related Health Effects
Coccia, Mario - 2023
It is well known that climate and environmental factors affect the diffusion of COVID-19. This study analyzes the role of wind speed and temperature associate with air pollution in cities categorized with their population density. The paper found that, in the period after lockdown, but before...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014259762
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Are Mercury Advisories Effective? Inofrmation, Education, and Fish Consumption
Shimshack, Jay - Department of Economics, Tufts University - 2004
Mercury exposure has emerged as one of the most prominent environmental health and food safety concerns. The primary …
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Household Electri cation and Indoor Air Pollution
Barron, Manuel; Torero, Maximo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
. Estimates of exposure measures suggest large health gains for all household members, but these gains are unequally distributed …
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The Nonlinear Effects of Air Pollution on Health : Evidence from Wildfire Smoke
Miller, Nolan; Molitor, David; Zou, Eric Yongchen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We estimate how acute air pollution exposure from wildfire smoke impacts human health in the U.S., allowing for …. Smaller pollution shocks have outsized health impacts, indicating significant health benefits from improving air quality, even …
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