Accurate estimation of air quality impacts on health outcomes is critical for guiding policy choices to mitigate such … damages. Estimation poses an empirical challenge, however, because local economic activity can simultaneously generate changes … causal impact of air quality on infant mortality across Sub-Saharan Africa. Combining detailed information on nearly 1 …

Accurate estimation of air quality impacts on health outcomes is critical for guiding policy choices to mitigate such … damages. Estimation poses an empirical challenge, however, because local economic activity can simultaneously generate changes … causal impact of air quality on infant mortality across Sub-Saharan Africa. Combining detailed information on nearly 1 …

mortality transition in developing countries. In this study, we assess the progress of mortality transition in India during four … decades between 1970 and 2013. We estimate measures of mortality compression and variability in age at death to assess the … trends and patterns in mortality compression for India as a whole and its twelve biggest states. The results reveal an …

the rest of the world. We find that the pollution content of export affected pollution and mortality. A one standard … deviation increase in PollutionExportShock increases infant mortality by 2.2 deaths per thousand live births, which is about 13 …% of the standard deviation of infant mortality change during the period. The dollar value of export expansion tends to …