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Air Pollution in Japan and the World
This chapter explores air pollution issues in Japan and the world. It reviews pollution problems caused by air pollutants such as sulfur dioxide...
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A Review of the Literature on the Economics of Household Air Pollution from Solid Fuel Usage
Household Air Pollution coming from the incomplete combustion of cooking fuels such as firewood and solid biomass fuels is a serious environmental...
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Air pollution and internal migration: evidence from an Iranian household survey
Air pollution has become an important national issue in Iran in recent years. Several studies in Iran have shown that air pollution harmfully impacts...
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The health benefits of air pollution control in India
This paper presents an overview of the health benefits of controlling ambient air pollution in India. We answer five questions: First, how high is...
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Determinants of Female Labour Force Participation in Urban India: Does Outdoor Air Pollution Matter?
The paper contributes the literature in the following ways: (a) It establishes negative sole impact of urban outdoor air-pollution and its...
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Air pollution and perception-based averting behaviour in the **chuan mining area, China
This paper presents a simultaneous equation, knowledge and perception-based averting behavior model of health risk caused by air pollution, with...
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The impact of air pollution on commercial health insurance demand amidst China's green transition
The increasing public concern about health impacts from air pollution has been paralleled by a growth in commercial health insurance (CHI) demand in...
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Forest Mitigates Short-Term Health Risk of Air Pollution: Evidence from China
This study assembles satellite data, individual-level death records, and air quality data to estimate forest greenness impact on air pollution and...
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Court Decisions and Air Pollution: Evidence from Ten Million Penal Cases in India
This study explores the relationship between air pollution and judicial rulings. Although environmental factors should not affect judicial decisions,...
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Assessing Multiple Inequalities and Air Pollution Abatement Policies
Addressing inequality is recognized a worldwide development objective. The literature has primarily focused on examining economic or social...
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Short-Term Exposure to Air Pollution and Cognitive Performance: New Evidence from China’s College English Test
This paper investigates the impact of air pollution on students’ cognitive performance in a high-stakes exam: China’s College English Test (CET). We...
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Air Pollution and Housing Values in Korea: A Hedonic Analysis with Long-range Transboundary Pollution as an Instrument
We estimate the degree and scope of PM 2.5 -induced negative price shock in Korea’s local housing markets, taking a two-stage hedonic approach. For the...
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Air pollution and income inequality: a spatial econometric approach
This study re-examines the relationship between income inequality and emission in US counties, incorporating multiple measures for pollution and...
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Air Pollution and Health: Economic Implications
In September 2021, the World Health Organization decided to implement stronger air quality guidelines for protecting health, based on the last decade...
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Decomposition of air pollution emissions from Swedish manufacturing
Starting from the ’90s, Swedish manufacturing output has been constantly growing, while emissions of some major air pollutants have been declining....
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The morbidity costs of air pollution through the Lens of Health Spending in China
This study is one of the first to present causal evidence of the morbidity costs of fine particulates (PM2.5) for all age cohorts in a develo**...
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Adversity-hope hypothesis: Air pollution raises lottery demand in China
The empirical literature points to a stylized phenomenon of increased demand for hope following adversity. Clotfelter and Cook (
1989 ) suggest that...
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Energy Policies, Agglomeration, and Pollution
This chapter reviews the interplay of agglomeration and pollution as well as the effect of energy policies on pollution in an urban context. It...
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Congestion, Air Quality, and Space
This chapter discusses the main policy mechanisms implemented by local authorities to curb the use of private vehicles and their associated effects...