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Reply to Polizzi and Dowd: Within-country counterfactual reveals importance of retirement age mortality in addition to established concern about working ages

Year: 2024

Type: letter

Abstract: Micro-nano plastics originating from the prevalent usage of plastics have raised increasingly alarming concerns worldwide. However, there remains a fundamental knowledge gap in nanoplastics because of the lack of effective analytical ...Plastics are now omnipresent in our daily lives. The existence of microplastics (1 µm to 5 mm in length) and possibly even nanoplastics (<1 μm) has recently raised health concerns. In particular, nanoplastics are believed to be more toxic since their ...

Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2320028121

Authors: Leah R. Abrams, Mikko Myrskylä, Neil K. Mehta

Institutions: Tufts University, University of Helsinki, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston

Language: English

Topic: Retirement, Disability, and Employment

Subfield: Demography

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: hybrid

Funders: National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging