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Household fuel transitions have substantially contributed to child mortality reductions in China

Lin, Zhu; Liao, Hua; Burke, Paul J. - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 164 (2023), pp. 1-11

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Air Pollution and Infant Health : What Can We Learn From California's Recent Experience

Currie, Janet - 2004

We examine the impact of air pollution on infant death in California over the 1990s. Our work offers several innovations: First, many previous studies examine populations subject to far greater levels of pollution. In contrast, the experience of California in the 1990s is clearly relevant to...

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Air Quality, Infant Mortality, and the Clean Air Act of 1970

Chay, Kenneth Y. - 2003

We examine the effects of total suspended particulates (TSPs) air pollution on infant health using the air quality improvements induced by the 1970 Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA). This legislation imposed strict regulations on industrial polluters in nonattainment' counties with TSPs...

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Gender differences in associations of household and ambient air pollution with child health : Evidence from household and satellite-based data in Bangladesh

Kurata, Masamitsu; Takahashi, Kazushi; Hibiki, Akira - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 128 (2020), pp. 1-15

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Impacts of improved biomass cookstoves on child and adult health : experimental evidence from rural Ethiopia

LaFave, Daniel; Beyene, Abebe Damte; Bluffstone, … - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 140 (2021), pp. 1-14

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Up in Smoke : The Influence of Household Behavior on the Long-Run Impact of Improved Cooking Stoves

Hanna, Rema - 2012

It is conventional wisdom that it is possible to reduce exposure to indoor air pollution, improve health outcomes, and decrease greenhouse gas emissions in the rural areas of developing countries through the adoption of improved cooking stoves. This belief is largely supported by observational...

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Early Health Shocks, Intrahousehold Resource Allocation, and Child Outcomes

Yi, Junjian - 2014

. Discussions usually focus on one dimension of child investment. This paper examines multiple dimensions using household survey …

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Happiness and health in China : the paradox of progress

Graham, Carol; Zhou, Shaojie; Zhang, Junyi - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 96 (2017), pp. 231-244

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International Spillover Effects of Air Pollution : Evidence from Mortality and Health Data

Heo, Seonmin Will; Ito, Koichiro; Kotamarthi, Rao - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

that transboundary air pollution from China significantly increases mortality and morbidity in South Korea. Using these … benefit. Finally, we examine China's strategic pollution reductions and provide their implications for the potential Coasian …

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Every Breath You Take - Every Dollar You'll Make : The Long-Term Consequences of the Clean Air Act of 1970

Isen, Adam - 2014

This paper examines the long-term impacts of early childhood exposure to air pollution on adult outcomes using U.S. administrative data. We exploit changes in air pollution driven by the 1970 Clean Air Act to analyze the difference in outcomes between cohorts born in counties before and after...

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