[PDF][PDF] Does when you die depend on where you live? Evidence from Hurricane Katrina

T Deryugina, D Molitor - 2018 - aeaweb.org
Medicare eligibility files provide the ZIP code of each beneficiary's mailing address, which is
maintained by the Social Security Administration (SSA). This is the address that is used to …

[BOOK][B] Health economics: an international perspective

B McPake, C Normand, S Smith, A Nolan - 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
Health Economics: An International Perspective is the only textbook to provide a truly
international, comparative treatment of health economics. Offering an analysis of health …

The hidden costs of terrorism: The effects on health at birth

C Quintana-Domeque, P Ródenas-Serrano - Journal of Health Economics, 2017 - Elsevier
We study the effects of in utero exposure to terrorism in Spain on birth outcomes, focusing on
terrorism perpetrated by ETA during the period 1980–2003. We find that in utero exposure to …

Extreme heat, birth outcomes, and socioeconomic heterogeneity

R Conte Keivabu, M Cozzani - Demography, 2022 - read.dukeupress.edu
We investigate the effect of extreme heat on birth outcomes and how this effect may vary by
family socioeconomic status (SES). We create a detailed data set by linking individual-level …

The impact of car pollution on infant and child health: Evidence from emissions cheating

D Alexander, H Schwandt - The Review of Economic Studies, 2022 - academic.oup.com
In 2008, Volkswagen introduced a new generation of “Clean Diesel” cars and heavily
marketed them to environmentally conscious US consumers. Unknown to the public, these …

Violence and birth outcomes: Evidence from homicides in Brazil

MF Koppensteiner, M Manacorda - Journal of Development Economics, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper uses microdata from Brazilian vital statistics on births and deaths between 2000
and 2010 to estimate the impact of in-utero exposure to local violence–measured by …

The intergenerational impact of terror: did the 9/11 tragedy impact the initial human capital of the next generation?

R Brown - Demography, 2020 - read.dukeupress.edu
Given the unexpected nature of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, a specific cohort
of children were exogenously exposed to increased maternal psychological stress in utero …

Dust and death: evidence from the West African Harmattan

A Adhvaryu, P Bharadwaj, J Fenske… - The Economic …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Using two decades of data from 12 low-income countries in West Africa, we show that dust
carried by harmattan trade winds increases infant and child mortality. Health investments …

Dust storms and violent crime

BA Jones - Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2022 - Elsevier
Dust storms are among the largest global sources of atmospheric particulate matter and
have pronounced impacts on environmental conditions and can affect individual ways-of …

After the dust settles: The infant health impacts of dust storms

BA Jones - Journal of the Association of Environmental and …, 2020 - journals.uchicago.edu
Dust storms, a significant source of air pollution, are increasing in frequency around the
globe. However, there is limited understanding of their impacts to infant health. I address this …