Using detailed data on the beneficiaries of the Korean National Health Insurance Service (c.2006-2015), this paper estimates the health effects of air pollution in South Korea while controlling for avoidance behaviors. In particular, I investigate changes in the respiratory hospitalization rates...

Recent studies have shown that air quality is an important amenity for population relocation in China. However, much of Chinese internal migration occurs due to non-discretionary reasons, such as government policies, family considerations, and military personnel reassignments. As such, estimates...

This paper estimates the effects of wind direction on ambient air quality in South Korea (c.2006-2014) in order to provide insights into the impacts of the long-range transport of air pollutants from China. I find that the effect of transboundary air pollutants from China accounts for 19 percent...

To address water shortages arising from the 2015 drought in Korea, water authority (K-water) implemented a (ad valorem) subsidy for water savings between October 2015 and January 2016, which is a new policy intervention to reduce water demand. K-water provided households with the subsidy when...