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individuals' well-being. However, how do individuals value the environment? In this paper, we review the Life Satisfaction …-being research in economics and takes measures of reported life satisfaction as an empirical approximation to individual welfare …. Micro-econometric life satisfaction functions are estimated taking into account environmental conditions along with income …
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SO2 concentrations on self-reported life satisfaction. …
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individuals' well-being. However, how do individuals value the environment? In this paper, we review the Life Satisfaction …-being research in economics and takes measures of reported life satisfaction as an empirical approximation to individual welfare …. Micro-econometric life satisfaction functions are estimated taking into account environmental conditions along with income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008574588
We examine the persistence of the impact of early-life exposure to air pollution on children's health from birth to … school enrollment using administrative public health insurance records covering one third of all children in Germany. For … medication for at least five years. The initially latent health response materializes only gradually in lower medication usage …
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pollutants on health. To circumvent this, we use emissions from Kīlauea volcano, uncorrelated with other pollution sources, to … young. No strong effects for SO2 pollution or cardiovascular outcomes are found. Since 2008, the volcano has increased …
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In light of the low public awareness of ozone pollution and the potential health threats posed by long-term ozone … exposure, this study estimates the causal effect of long-term ozone exposure on respiratory mortality. By employing an … instrumental variable based on the long-distance transmission of ozone from upwind neighbor counties, we discover that an increase …
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SO2 concentrations on self-reported life satisfaction. …
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We study how air pollution impacts the U.S. labor market by analyzing effects of drifting wildfire smoke that can … welfare cost of lost earnings due to air pollution exposure is on par with standard valuations of the mortality burden. The … findings suggest that labor market channels warrant greater consideration in policy responses to air pollution. …
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Recent research suggests that short-term exposure to air pollution is associated with an elevated prevalence of …
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.5 concentrations, with the drop leveling off for further increases in fine-particle pollution. A back-of-the-envelope calculation … hourly PM2.5 truncated at 25 µg/m3. We also find reduced product quality as pollution rises. Our model allows for selection … into work attendance, though we do not find particle pollution to be a meaningful determinant of non-attendance, which is …
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