Risk Attitude and Air Pollution: Evidence From Chess

Cancer risk of air pollution: epidemiological evidence.

Epidemiological studies on the effect of urban air pollution on lung cancer were surveyed. Overall, the studies from many countries point to a smoking-adjusted risk in urban areas over countryside areas that is higher by a factor of up to 1.5. The extent to which urban air pollution contributes to this excess remains unknown. Studies on diesel-exposed occupational groups show that urban air pol...

Air Pollution and Diabetes Risk: Assessing the Evidence to Date

Many studies have reported associations between ambient air pollution and cardiovascular disease, asthma, and cancer. Diabetes mellitus also is a risk factor for vascular and respiratory diseases, and development of these outcomes in people with diabetes may be exacerbated by exposure to air pollution. In this issue of EHP, a team of European scientists conducted a systematic review to evaluate...

Air Pollution Risk

This article reviews the literature on health effects of air pollution, with a primary focus on time series studies but also covering prospective studies and case-crossover designs. It also covers some of the controversies created by these studies and concludes with a brief review of air pollution standards in the U.S.

Who suffers from indoor air pollution? Evidence from Bangladesh.

In this paper, we investigate individuals' exposure to indoor air pollution. Using new survey data from Bangladesh, average hours spent by members of households in the cooking area, living area and outdoors in a typical day are combined with the estimates of pollution concentration in different locations in order to estimate exposure. We analyse exposure at two levels: differences within househ...

Air Pollution and Academic Performance: Evidence from California Schools