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Impacts of the Clean Air Act on the power sector from 1938-1994: anticipation and adaptation
Clay, Karen; Jha, Akshaya; Lewis, Joshua; Severnini, … - 2021
provided the federal government with the authority to "control" air pollution, sending a strong signal to firms of impending …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012582425
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Toxic truth : lead and fertility
Clay, Karen; Portnykh, Margarita; Severnini, Edson R. - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011878025
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Toxic truth : lead and fertility
Clay, Karen; Portnykh, Margarita; Severnini, Edson R. - 2018
Clean Air Act regulations and the 1944 Interstate Highway System Plan for the panel data and ii) the 1944 Interstate Highway …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011865468
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Toxic Truth : Lead and Fertility
Clay, Karen - 2018
Clean Air Act regulations and the 1944 Interstate Highway System Plan for the panel data and ii) the 1944 Interstate Highway …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453111
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Toxic Truth : Lead and Fertility
Clay, Karen - 2018
Clean Air Act regulations and the 1944 Interstate Highway System Plan for the panel data and ii) the 1944 Interstate Highway …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012918263
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Toxic Truth : Lead and Fertility
Clay, Karen - 2018
Using U.S county level data on lead in air for 1978-1988, this paper provides the first causal evidence on the effects of airborne lead exposure on the general fertility rate and the completed fertility rate in the broad population. Instrumental variable estimates show the increase in completed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012918616
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Pollution, infectious disease, and mortality : evidence from the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic
Clay, Karen; Lewis, Joshua; Severnini, Edson R. - 2015
This paper uses the 1918 influenza pandemic as a natural experiment to examine whether air pollution affects …-city differences in baseline pollution measures based on coal-fired electricity generating capacity for a sample 183 American cities …. The findings suggest that air pollution exacerbated the impact of the pandemic. Proximity to World War I military bases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347213
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Impacts of the Clean Air Act on the Power Sector from 1938-1994: Anticipation and Adaptation
Clay, Karen; Jha, Akshaya; Lewis, Joshua; Severnini, … - 2021
provided the federal government with the authority to "control" air pollution, sending a strong signal to firms of impending …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658073
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What explains cross-city variation in mortality during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic? : evidence from 438 U.S. cities
Clay, Karen; Lewis, Joshua; Severnini, Edson R. - 2019
mortality. We assess the role of three broad factors: i) pre-pandemic population health and poverty, ii) air pollution, and iii … the distribution of coal-fired electricity generating capacity, an important source of urban air pollution, had 9.1 excess …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011985935
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Coal, smoke, and death : bituminous coal and American home heating
Barreca, Alan I.; Clay, Karen; Tarr, Joel A. - 2014
Air pollution was severe in many urban areas of the United States in the first half of the twentieth century, in part …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010250025