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The Health Costs of Coal-Fired Power Plants in India

Barrows, Geoffrey; Garg, Teevrat; Jha, Akshaya - 2019

This paper estimates the effect of coal-fired power plants on infant mortality in India. We find that a one GW increase in coal-fired capacity corresponds to a 14% increase in infant mortality rates in districts near versus far from the plant site. This effect is 2-3 times larger than estimates...

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The Impact of High Temperatures on Performance in Work-Related Activities

Picchio, Matteo; van Ours, Jan C. - 2023

reduce effort in order to cope with heat. We investigate how temperature affects performance of male professional tennis …. We find that performance significantly decreases with ambient temperature. The magnitude of the temperature effect is age … players do. The effect of temperature on performance is smaller when there is more at stake. Our findings also suggest that …

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Environmental Engagement, Religion and Spirituality in the Context of Secularization

Briguglio, Marie; García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - 2020

Over the past half century, a literature has developed across a range of disciplines exploring the relationship between religion and environmental engagement, including pro-environmental attitudes and behaviours.Empirical results are diverse and the relationship seems to vary in size and...

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The Effects of Climate Change in the Poorest Countries: Evidence from the Permanent Shrinking of Lake Chad

Jedwab, Remi; Haslop, Federico; Zarate, Roman; … - 2023

Empirical studies of the economic effects of climate change (CC) largely rely on climate anomalies for causal identification purposes. Slow and permanent changes in climate-driven geographical conditions, i.e. CC as defined by the IPCC (2013), have been studied relatively less, especially in...

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Nobody likes a rat: On the willingness and consequences of reporting lies

Reuben, Ernesto; Stephenson, Matt - 2012

We investigate the intrinsic motivation of individuals to report, and thereby sanction, fellow group members who lie for personal gain. We further explore the changes in lying and reporting behavior that result from giving individuals a say in who joins their group. We find that enough...

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Nobody Likes a Rat: On the Willingness and Consequences of Reporting Lies

Reuben, Ernesto; Stephenson, Matthew - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

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Air Pollution and the Labor Market: Evidence from Wildfire Smoke

Borgschulte, Mark; Molitor, David; Zou, Eric Yongchen - 2022

We study how air pollution impacts the U.S. labor market by analyzing effects of drifting wildfire smoke that can affect populations far from the fires themselves. We link satellite smoke plume with labor market outcomes to estimate that an additional day of smoke exposure reduces quarterly...

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The Morbidity Costs of Air Pollution through the Lens of Health Spending in China

Zhang, Xin; Zhang, Xun; Liu, Yuehua; Zhao, Xintong; Chen, Xi - 2022

This study is one of the first investigating the causal evidence of the morbidity costs of fine particulates (PM2.5) for all age cohorts in a developing country, using individual-level health spending data from a basic medical insurance program in Wuhan, China. Our instrumental variable (IV)...

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Willingness to Pay for Carbon Mitigation: Field Evidence from the Market for Carbon Offsets

Rodemeier, Matthias - 2023

What do markets for voluntary climate protection imply about people's valuations of en- vironmental protection? I study this question in a large-scale field experiment (N=255,000) with a delivery service, where customers are offered carbon offsets that compensate for emissions. To estimate...

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Air Pollution and Respiratory Infectious Diseases

Provenzano, Sandro; Roth, Sefi; Sager, Lutz - 2023

Recent research suggests that short-term exposure to air pollution is associated with an elevated prevalence of respiratory infectious disease. We examine the relationship between the air quality index (AQI) and weekly cases of influenza-like illnesses (ILI) and COVID-19 in the United States. We...

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