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In cities around the world, Covid-19 lockdowns have improved outdoor air quality, in some cases dramatically. Even if only temporary, these improvements could have longer-lasting effects on policy by making chronic air pollution more salient and boosting political pressure for change. To that...
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The children who grew up in two-parent households for their entire childhood earn more than the other children reared … is the hourly earnings difference between the children who grew up in intact families and their counterparts raised by …. I identify the causal effect by using the following specification strategies. First, I control the parental income and …
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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. …
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Survey. It finds that the presence of a midwife in a community in utero leads to an improvement in overall health, cognition …
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children and adult cooks in treated households relative to control households. The results advance understanding of the health …This paper presents the three-year impacts of an improved biomass cookstove on child and adult health in rural Ethiopia … in height-for-age of young children exposed during their first years of life, compared with a control group of households …
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Survey. It finds that the presence of a midwife in a community in utero leads to an improvement in overall health, cognition …
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This article investigates the effect of fast-food availability on childhood weight outcomes by gender, race, and location. We use a novel identification strategy based on changes in fast-food exposure along the route between the home and school that occur as students progress through the public...
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children not eligible under means-testing, with little evidence of income or parental labour supply effects. This suggests …We study the impact on young children's bodyweight of switching from means-tested to universal provision of nutritious …
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The article shows the relationships between the COVID and non‑COVID deaths during the first year of the pandemic, compared with the stringency of restrictions imposed and the compulsory spending on healthcare. We compare these relationships among European countries, analysing weekly data and...
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Against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, most countries implemented a partial or full lockdown as a preventive measure. Although lockdown caused an economic contraction, it unexpectedly improved the environment, especially air pollution. This paper quantifies the impact of the lockdown on...
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