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Where there is smoke: Solid fuel externalities, gender, and adult respiratory health in India
- Topics: Environment, Gender, Lung obstruction, Solid fuels
Chronic respiratory conditions are a leading cause of death in the world. Using data on lung obstruction from the WHO Survey of Global AGEing and Adult Health (WHO-SAGE 2007-08), this paper studies the determinants of respiratory health in India, home...Read More..
The association of early-life exposure to ambient PM2.5 and later-childhood height-for-age in India: an observational study
- Topics: Child health, Climate change, Environment, Height, Pollution
This paper by Dean and Sangita (co-authored with Sagnik Dey, Sourangshu Choundary, Noah Scovronick and Joshua Apte) is the first study to directly estimate the impact of early-life exposure to ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) on child height-for-age at the...Read More..
The child health impacts of coal: evidence from India’s coal expansion
- Topics: Child health, Environment, Height, Pollution
This paper investigates the child health impacts associated with a large coal plant expansion in India. Using place and cohort fixed effects, exposure to a median-sized coal plant at birth is associated with a height deficit of 0.09-0.10 standard deviations....Read More..
Particulate pollution has important consequences for human health, and is an issue of global concern. Outdoor air pollution has become a cause for alarm in India in particular because recent data suggest that ambient pollution levels in Indian cities are...Read More..
Health externalities of India’s expansion of coal plants: Evidence from a national panel of 40,000 households
- Topics: Child health, Environment, Pollution
Coal power generation is expanding rapidly in India and other developing countries. In addition to consequences for climate change, present-day health externalities may also substantially increase the social cost of coal. Health consequences of air pollution have proven important in...Read More..
Optimal climate policy and the future of world economic development
- Topics: Climate change, Environment
How much should present generations sacrifice to reduce emissions today, in order to reduce the future harms of climate change? Within climate economics, debate on this question has been focused on so called "ethical parameters" of social time preference and...Read More..