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 …

national and global air quality regulations that support the improvement of the air quality and the health of the population … complexity of contemporary environmental and health challenges. On the other hand, the use of tools and examples of the good … creating specific policies that lead to improving the quality of the environment and, implicitly, the health of the population. …

generations model. As the environmental tax improves the health-profile over the life-cycle, it influences saving, investment in … health, labor supply and retirement. As a result, we identify effects of environmental taxation beyond the standard crowding …

The medical literature documents adverse health effects of acute exposure to diesel exhaust, yet quasi … differentiated impacts on the megacity's traffic, air quality and public health. We combine rich panel data on road congestion … cars responded by filling the space the diesel trucks left behind. Effects on air and health persisted thanks to the …

are robust to other measures of infant health, many changes in specification and falsification tests. In the intensive … to human health and have policy implications for regulation of shale gas development …

It is conventional wisdom that it is possible to reduce exposure to indoor air pollution, improve health outcomes, and … functioning or health and there is no change in fuel consumption (and presumably greenhouse gas emissions). The difference between … health technologies in real-world settings where behavior may temper impacts, and to test them over a long enough horizon to …

Oil spills can lead to irreversible environmental degradation and pose hazards to human health. We are the first to … Oil Spill Monitor and the Demographic and Health Surveys, and rely on the comparison of siblings conceived before and … across locations and socio-economic backgrounds. We also provide some evidence for negative health effects of nearby oil …