Pollution and Health

Environmental EconomicsHealth Economics
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Graff Zivin, J and M Neidell, “Pollution and Health,” in Encyclopedia of Health Economics, Volume 3, Tony Culyer (Ed.), Elsevier, 2014.

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This article presents a basic economic framework for evaluating environmental health impacts, followed by a discussion of the core empirical challenges that researchers face in estimating the relationship between pollution and health. A selective review of significant contributions from the literature that focus on the effects of air pollution is then provided, concluding with some suggestions for fruitful lines of future research.

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