Asthma is a chronic respiratory disease characterized by variable airflow obstruction,
bronchial hyperresponsiveness, and airway inflammation. Evidence suggests that air …

Abstract The World Health Organization estimates that particulate matter (PM) air pollution
contributes to approximately 800,000 premature deaths each year, ranking it the 13th …

Although the relationship between asthma and exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2. 5)
has been frequently measured, reported conclusions have not been consistent. As …

Conventional hedonic techniques for estimating the value of local amenities rely on the
assumption that households move freely among locations. We show that when moving is …

Much research on the health effects of outdoor air pollution has been published in the last
decade. The goal of this review is to concisely summarize a wide range of the recent …

Despite the implementation of National Rural Health Mission over a period of nine years
since 2005, the public health system in the country continues to face formidable challenges …

BACKGROUND: Children with asthma in inner-city communities may be particularly
vulnerable to adverse effects of air pollution because of their airways disease and exposure …

We propose a new strategy for a pervasive problem in the hedonics literature: recovering
hedonic prices in the presence of time-varying correlated unobservables. Our approach …

The authors investigated the relation between ambient concentrations of five of the
Environmental Protection Agency's criteria pollutants and asthma exacerbations (daily …

Exposure to particulate matter (PM) air pollution has been shown to exacerbate children's
asthma, but the exposure sources and temporal characteristics are still under study …