Laboratory studies suggest that improved cooking stoves can reduce indoor air pollution, improve health, and decrease greenhouse gas…
Outsourcing government service provision to private firms can improve efficiency and reduce rents, but there are risks that non-…
In this paper I sketch key episodes in the two thousand year history of interactions between society and environment that have shaped the…
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Rising household wealth may potentially impact both total fuel consumption and fuel-type composition, resulting in significant health and…
Moderate effects of pollution on health may exert important influences on work. We exploit exogenous variation in pollution due to the…
Much of what we know about the marginal effect of pollution on infant mortality is derived from
developed country data. However, given the…
Almost three billion people around the world—or 4 out of every 10 individuals—are exposed to high levels of smoke each day from traditional…
It is conventional wisdom that it is possible to reduce exposure to indoor air pollution, improve
health outcomes, and decrease greenhouse…