Do environmental conditions pose greater health risks to individuals living in urban or rural areas? The answer is … air pollution, drinking water pollution, and extreme temperatures - and the response to those exposures differ across … pollution, leveraging recent advances in remote sensing measurement and machine learning. We find that the urban-rural gap in …

Air pollution results in high economic costs arising from its negative impacts on human health, especially in urban … analyses in this Weekly Report confirm that LEZs reduce traffic-related air pollution. However, the analyses also reveal … unintended adverse effects on secondary contaminants like ozone and on air pollution in adjacent areas. New evidence based on …

This paper examines the extent to which the 2005 Clean Air Act introduced in South Korea affected air pollution and … infant health. To identify the causal effect, we exploit the time and geographical variations in the adoption of the Act …

representative cohorts of children born to the NLSY respondents over time with detailed information on families, locations, health … births where one or more child was exposed to TRI pollution during gestation and other siblings were not exposed because the … exposed prenatally to TRI pollution have lower wages, are more likely to be in poverty as adults, have fewer years of …