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changes later in childhood. Since smoking is one source of producing carbon monoxide and thus affects child health negatively …
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changes later in childhood. Since smoking is one source of producing carbon monoxide and thus affects child health negatively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600954
Although at least 400 million people suffer from seasonal allergies worldwide, the adverse effects of pollen on "non-health" outcomes, such as cognition and productivity, are relatively understudied. Using ambulance archives from Japan, we demonstrate that high pollen days are associated with...
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This study comprehensively assesses the immediate effects of extreme weather conditions and high concentrations of ambient air pollution on population health. For Germany and the years 1999 to 2008, we link the universe of all 170 million hospital admissions, along with all 8 million deaths,...
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This study comprehensively assesses the immediate effects of extreme weather conditions and high concentrations of ambient air pollution on population health. For Germany and the years 1999 to 2008, we link the universe of all 170 million hospital admissions, along with all 8 million deaths,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352037
Transport has significant externalities including carbon emissions and air pollution. Public health research has identified additional social gains from active travel, due to health benefits of physical exercise. Per mile, these benefits greatly exceed the external costs from car use. We...
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This paper investigates the short-term effects of public smoking bans on individual smoking behavior. In 2007 and 2008 …, state-level smoking bans were gradually introduced in all of Germany's federal states. We exploit this variation to identify … the effect that smoke-free policies had on individuals’ smoking propensity and smoking intensity. Using rich longitudinal …
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order to derive testable constraints that bound the effect of schooling on smoking. Data from the Swiss Health Survey …
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In this paper, we investigate the intergenerational transmission of smoking behavior from parents to their children … evidence, that parental smoking significantly increases the probability that their children likewise become smokers. Youths … living in families with both parents smoking are 3.3 times more likely to smoke themselves, while a smoking father raises the …
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This paper examines the effect of smoking behavior on earnings. Using data from the GSOEP, both cross-sectional and … inasmuch as smoking has a negative effect on earnings for males. However, applying fixed-effects estimation, this effect is … found to be inverted for men aged 25 to 35 years compared to their non-smoking counterparts. That is, controlling for …
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