IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'The effects of increased pollution on COVID-19 cases and deaths' in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2021, 107, 102432

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13211

Health Shocks under Hospital Capacity Constraint: Evidence from Air Pollution in Sao Paulo, Brazil

Bruna Guidetti, Paula Pereda, Edson R. Severnini

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13191

Dirty Density: Air Quality and the Density of American Cities

Felipe Carozzi, Sefi Roth

published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2023, 118, 102767.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13133

The Spillover Effects of Pollution: How Exposure to Lead Affects Everyone in the Classroom

Ludovica Gazze, Claudia L. Persico, Sandra Spirovska

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13036

The Effect of Open-Air Waste Burning on Infant Health: Evidence from Government Failure in Lebanon

Pierre Mouganie, Ruba Ajeeb, Mark Hoekstra

published online in: Journal of Human Resources, 08 March 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12965

Can Pollution Cause Poverty? The Effects of Pollution on Educational, Health and Economic Outcomes

Claudia L. Persico

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12838

The Health Costs of Coal-Fired Power Plants in India

Geoffrey Barrows, Teevrat Garg, Akshaya Jha

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12745

Does Pollution Drive Achievement? The Effect of Traffic Pollution on Academic Performance

Jennifer A. Heissel, Claudia L. Persico, David Simon

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12654

Depression in the House: The Effects of Household Air Pollution from Solid Fuel Use in China

Yan Liu, Xi Chen, Zhijun Yan

published as 'Depression in the house: The effects of household air pollution from solid fuel use among the middle-aged and older population in China' in: Science of the Total Environment, 2020, 703, 134706

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12545

Low Emission Zones for Better Health: Evidence from German Hospitals

Nico Pestel, Florian Wozny

revised version published as 'Health Effects of Low Emission Zones: Evidence from German Hospitals' in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 109, 2021, 102512

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12467

Air Pollution during Pregnancy and Birth Outcomes in Italy

Alessandro Palma, Inna Petrunyk, Daniela Vuri

published as 'Prenatal air pollution exposure and neonatal health' in: Health Economics, 2022, 31 (5), 729-759

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12427

The Impact of Car Pollution on Infant and Child Health: Evidence from Emissions Cheating

Diane Alexander, Hannes Schwandt

published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2022, 89 (6), 2872–2910

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12313

The Effects of Exposure to Air Pollution on Subjective Well-being in China

Xin Zhang, Xi Chen, Xiaobo Zhang

longer version published in: D.Maddison, K. Rehdanz, H. Welsch (eds.): Handbook on Well-being, Happiness, and the Environment, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12296

The Effect of Air Pollution on Body Weight and Obesity: Evidence from China

Olivier Deschenes, Huixia Wang, Si Wang, Peng Zhang

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 145, 102461

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12177

What Explains Cross-City Variation in Mortality During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic? Evidence from 438 U.S. Cities

Karen Clay, Joshua Lewis, Edson R. Severnini

published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2019, 36, 42-50

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12115

Something in the Pipe: Flint Water Crisis and Health at Birth

Rui Wang, Xi Chen, Xun Li

published as 'Something in the pipe: the Flint water crisis and health at birth' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2022, 35, 1723–1749

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11921

Smog, Cognition and Real-World Decision Making

Xi Chen

published in: International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2019, 8 (2), 76 - 80

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11703

Light Pollution, Sleep Deprivation, and Infant Health at Birth

Laura M. Argys, Susan L. Averett, Muzhe Yang

published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2021, 87 (3), 849-888

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11542

Impact of the Clean Air Act on Air Pollution and Infant Health: Evidence from South Korea

Soohyung Lee, Heesun Yoo, Minhyuk Nam

published in: Economics Letters, 2018, 168, 98-101

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11492

Crime is in the Air: The Contemporaneous Relationship between Air Pollution and Crime

Malvina Bondy, Sefi Roth, Lutz Sager

published in: Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2020, 7 (3), 555-585.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11354

City Size, Pollution and Emission Policies

Michael P. Pflüger

published in: Journal of Urban Economics 2021, 126, 103391

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11134

Severe Air Pollution and School Absences: Longitudinal Data on Expatriates in North China

Haoming Liu, Alberto Salvo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10897

Do Environmental Regulations Effect FDI Decisions? The Pollution Haven Hypothesis Revisited

Haeyeon Yoon, Almas Heshmati

published in: Science and Public Policy, 2021, 48 (1), 122 - 131

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10691

The Lifelong Costs of Urban Smogs

Alastair Ball

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10628

Smog in Our Brains: Gender Differences in the Impact of Exposure to Air Pollution on Cognitive Performance

Xi Chen, Xiaobo Zhang, Xin Zhang

published as 'The impact of exposure to air pollution on cognitive performance' in: PNAS, 2018, 115 (37), 9193 - 9197.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10465

Fertility, Mortality and Environmental Policy

Ulla Lehmijoki, Tapio K. Palokangas

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10428

Atmospheric Pollution and Child Health in Late Nineteenth Century Britain

Roy E. Bailey, Timothy J. Hatton, Kris Inwood

published in: Journal of Economic History, 2018, 78(4), 1210-1247

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10170

Estimating Indirect Benefits: Fracking, Coal and Air Pollution

Reid Johnsen, Jacob LaRiviere, Hendrik Wolff

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10115

Can Natural Gas Save Lives? Evidence from the Deployment of a Fuel Delivery System in a Developing Country

Resul Cesur, Erdal Tekin, Aydogan Ulker

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 59, 91 - 108

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10028

Valuing Air Quality Using Happiness Data: The Case of China

Xin Zhang, Xiaobo Zhang, Xi Chen

published in: Ecological Economics, 2017, 137, 29 - 36

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10027

The Effect of Pollution on Worker Productivity: Evidence from Call-Center Workers in China

Tom Chang, Joshua Graff Zivin, Tal Gross, Matthew Neidell

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2019, 11 (1), 151-172

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9884

Canary in a Coal Mine: Infant Mortality, Property Values, and Tradeoffs Associated with Mid-20th Century Air Pollution

Karen Clay, Joshua Lewis, Edson R. Severnini

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 106 (3), 698 - 711

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9689

Something in the Air? Pollution, Allergens and Children's Cognitive Functioning

Dave E. Marcotte

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, Vol. 56, 141-151

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9400

Arsenic Contamination of Drinking Water and Mental Health

Shyamal Chowdhury, Annabelle Krause-Pilatus, Klaus F. Zimmermann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9399

Pollution, Infectious Disease, and Mortality: Evidence from the 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic

Karen Clay, Joshua Lewis, Edson R. Severnini

published in: Journal of Economic History, 2018, 78 (4), 1179-1209

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9398

Vog: Using Volcanic Eruptions to Estimate the Health Costs of Particulates

Timothy J. Halliday, John Lynham, Aureo de Paula

published in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (620),1782–1816,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9104

Green Cities? Urbanization, Trade and the Environment

Rainald Borck, Michael P. Pflüger

published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2019, 59:4, 743-766

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8964

Productivity Effects of Air Pollution: Evidence from Professional Soccer

Andreas Lichter, Nico Pestel, Eric Sommer

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 48, 54-66

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8916

Severe Air Pollution and Labor Productivity: Evidence from Industrial Towns in China

Jiaxiu He, Haoming Liu, Alberto Salvo

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2019, 11 (1), 173–201

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8865

Estimating the Size of External Effects of Energy Subsidies

Simon Commander, Zlatko Nikoloski, Maria Vagliasindi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8180

Keep Your Clunker in the Suburb: Low Emission Zones and Adoption of Green Vehicles

Hendrik Wolff

published in: Economic Journal, 2014, 124(578), F481–F512

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7987

Coal, Smoke, and Death: Bituminous Coal and American Home Heating

Alan I. Barreca, Karen Clay, Joel Tarr

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7929

Economic Status, Air Quality, and Child Health: Evidence from Inversion Episodes

Jenny Jans, Per Johansson, Peter Nilsson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7875

The Short-Term Population Health Effects of Weather and Pollution: Implications of Climate Change

Nicolas R. Ziebarth, Maike Schmitt, Martin Karlsson

revised version published as: Karlsson, M.; Zierbarth, N.R., 'Population health effects and health-related costs of extreme temperatures: Comprehensive evidence from Germany' in:Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2018, 91, 93-117

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7179

Air Pollution and Infant Mortality: Evidence from the Expansion of Natural Gas Infrastructure

Resul Cesur, Erdal Tekin, Aydogan Ulker

pubished in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (600), 330 - 362

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6744

Aircraft Noise, Health, and Residential Sorting: Evidence from Two Quasi-Experiments

Stefan Boes, Stephan Nüesch, Steven Stillman

published in: Health Economics, 2013, 22 (9), 1037 - 1051

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5716

Poisoning the Mind: Arsenic Contamination of Drinking Water Wells and Children's Educational Achievement in Rural Bangladesh

Niaz Asadullah, Nazmul Chaudhury

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30 (5), 873-888