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evidence from humans support claims of an adverse relationship between lead pollution and human health. Since lead exposure is … has been given to lead's impact on fertility, infant mortality, and infant health. This paper examines the existing quasi …
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mental health and subjective well-being (SWB). This paper attempts to fill the gap by investigating the impact of air … pollution on several key dimensions, including mental health status, depressive symptoms, moment-to-moment happiness, and …
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) and rely on variations in pollution level and health diseases between interviews over time for the same individual. The … effects of air pollution on individuals' health diseases are estimated and their monetary value is calculated. In particular … dynamic Probit Random Effects model. Regarding the skin conditions and allergy health problems the annual monetary values for …
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Using a stacked differences-in-differences approach, we study the effects of Low Emission Zones (LEZs) in Germany. The implementation of stage 1 and 2 LEZs, which banned the most pollution-intensive vehicles from city centers, significantly reduced PM10 concentrations. The most restrictive third...
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Little is known about the response behavior of parents whose children are exposed to an early-life shock. In this paper we interpret the prenatal exposure of the Austrian 1986 cohort to radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl accident as a negative human capital shock and examine their parents...
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Little is known about the response behavior of parents whose children are exposed to an early-life shock. In this paper we interpret the prenatal exposure of the Austrian 1986 cohort to radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl accident as a negative human capital shock and examine their parents'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010238369
Little is known about the response behavior of parents whose children are exposed to an early-life shock. In this paper we interpret the prenatal exposure of the Austrian 1986 cohort to radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl accident as a negative human capital shock and examine their parents'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010248827
Little is known about the response behavior of parents whose children are exposed to an early-life shock. We interpret the prenatal exposure of the Austrian 1986 cohort to radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl accident as a negative human capital shock and examine their parents' response...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010406894
Women bear a disproportionate share of the health and time burden associated with lack of access to modern energy. We … study the impact of clean energy access on adult health and labour supply outcomes by exploiting a nationwide rollout of a … clean cooking fuel program in Indonesia. We find that access to clean cooking fuel led to an improvement in women's health …
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This paper studies health effects from restricting the access of high-emission vehicles to innercities by implementing … in urban areas and that these improvements in air quality translate into population health benefits. We find that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012310749