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Air Works” is a voluntary program which educates people about the negative effects of air pollution on health. Moreover … ozone warning system associated with voluntary programs can help to clean the air and improve the public health …Ground-level ozone is an important pollutant regulated under the Clean Air Acts that affects respiratory morbidity …
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panel data set consisting of hourly air pollution measurements. The augmented sinusoidal models produce an excellent fit to …
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ambient air pollution on population health. For Germany and the years 1999 to 2008, we link the universe of all 170 million … simultaneous weather and pollution conditions. We find strong evidence for "harvesting", and that the instantaneous heat-health … hospital admissions, along with all 8 million deaths, with weather and pollution data reported at the day-county level. Extreme …
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ambient air pollution on population health. For Germany and the years 1999 to 2008, we link the universe of all 170 million … hospital admissions, along with all 8 million deaths, with weather and pollution data reported at the day-county level. Extreme … heat significantly increases hospitalizations and deaths. Extreme cold has a negligible effect on population health. High …
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We investigate the effect of pollution on worker productivity in the service sector by focusing on two call centers in … China. Using precise measures of each worker's daily output linked to daily measures of pollution and meteorology, we find … that higher levels of air pollution decrease worker productivity by reducing the number of calls that workers complete each …
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estimates the health effects of air pollution in South Korea while controlling for avoidance behaviors. In particular, I …Using detailed data on the beneficiaries of the Korean National Health Insurance Service (c.2006-2015), this paper … endogeneity of air pollution, this paper applies the historical average concentration of air pollution that includes rich …
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.5 pollution could be mixed. While adverse health effects of PM2.5 pollution can lead to reduced labor supply, workers can rather …We empirically examine how fine particulate matter (PM2.5) pollution affects labor supply in Japan. The effects of PM2 … supply in a country with moderate levels of pollution. We use a monthly panel dataset covering entire Japan in 2013–2017 and …
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Fine particulate pollution (PM2.5) is a leading mortality risk factor in the People's Republic of China (PRC) and many … results indicate that cities in the PRC should accelerate the fine particulate pollution control process and implement more …
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We estimate the causal impact of air pollution on the incidence of sick leaves in a representative panel of employees … workers with low job security. Our estimates are instrumental for quantifying air pollution damages due to changes in labor …
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