Excessive nighttime light is known to have detrimental effects on health and on the environment (fauna and flora). The … paper investigates the link between nighttime light pollution and economic growth, air pollution, and urban density. We …-level counties. This has implications for policies that have been proposed to curtail nighttime light pollution. …

matters for children’s life satisfaction. The results suggest that children are more satisfied with life the more income their … greater returns from addressing satisfaction gaps experienced during school holidays and focussing on British/Irish white …

The socio-economic gradient in health remains a controversial topic in economics and other social sciences. In this … paper we develop a new duration model that allows for unobserved persistent individual-specific health shocks and provides …-quality panel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. We also contribute to the rapidly growing literature on life satisfaction …

This paper examines the impact of outdoor and indoor pollution on children’s health from birth until the age of three …. Secondly, we are able to follow the effect of pollution exposure on a child’s health during the first three years of life … significantly negative impact for some pollutants on infant health during early childhood. In comparison to outdoor pollution …

This paper examines the impact of outdoor and indoor pollution on children’s health from birth until the age of three …. Secondly, we are able to follow the effect of pollution exposure on a child’s health during the first three years of life … significantly negative impact for some pollutants on infant health during early childhood. In comparison to outdoor pollution …

This paper uses a set of panel data from happiness surveys, jointly with data on per capita income and pollution, to … paper finds that air pollution plays a statistically significant role as a predictor of intercountry and inter …-temporal differences in subjective well-being. The effect of air pollution on well-being shows up as a considerable monetary valuation of …

quality on air pollution-related medical expenditure and utilization is sparse. This study estimates the short-term health … to 32 during our study period, completely removing air pollution would reduce the national health expenditure by … care cost impacts of air pollution using a meteorological phenomenon—thermal inversion—as an instrumental variable for air …

systematic evidence on the health especially morbidity impact of air pollution in these countries. Based on the universe of …Developing and fast-growing economies have some of the worse air pollution in the world, but there is a lack of … morbidity cost of PM2.5 for the entire population of a developing country. To address potential endogeneity in pollution …