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The Impact of Local Pollution Exposure on Hospital Admissions: The Case of Portugal

The WHO air quality standards were renewed in September 2021. The largest decrease (75%) targeted the annual value of nitrogen dioxide (NO2). Despite the severity of the new guidelines, economic studies that estimate the impact of nitrogen dioxide …

Unemployment, Environment, Inequality, and Health

Air pollution has been considered in the literature an important driving force underlying the long-lasting puzzle of the negative relationship between unemployment and mortality rates in the US. I use a newly developed satellite-based dataset on …

The Impact of Industrial Pollution Exposure on Hospital Admissions: Evidence from a Cement Plant in Russia

The effect of individual-level daily silicon dust exposure from cement production on the probability of hospital admissions for respiratory- related reasons is examined. We use an aerodynamic dispersion model to calculate pollutants’ exposure. The …

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