Posts tagged with 'environment'
July 3, 2020
Poor air quality increases COVID-19 deaths
Moving at-risk patients out of polluted areas could reduce the case fatality rate
September 27, 2019
Low Emission Zones in Germany improve population health
Reduced air pollution in urban areas translates into fewer circulatory and respiratory diseases
July 10, 2018
How the Chernobyl cloud affected cognitive abilities in Germany
Even low doses of radiation can have significant human capital costs.
July 7, 2017
Public health in utero: How external factors influence birth outcomes
By Jeanna Canapari (Yale University) In the study of birth outcomes, going to extremes is not always necessary. While intense […]
January 8, 2016
Award-winning paper on the costs of environmental policy
The study by Reed Walker (UC Berkeley) on “The Transitional Costs of Sectoral Reallocation: Evidence from the Clean Air Act […]
October 26, 2015
How the “bobos” change cities and raise commuting costs
How do the “bobos”, the new leftist bourgeoisie populating Western capitals’ city centers, alter the character and the policies in […]
October 12, 2015
Mental health costs of access to unsafe drinking water
Fulfilling one of the UN’s Millennium Development Goals five years before schedule, 2.6 billion people gained access to sources of […]
April 17, 2015
Air pollution impairs productivity of professional soccer players
Air pollution is the top environmental risk factor of premature death. Annual costs of environmental damage for the European countries […]
September 2, 2013
What is the right price of clean air?
How much are people willing to pay for clean air? Driven by this question, empirical economists have come up with […]