Long-run pollution exposure and mortality: Evidence from the Acid Rain Program
| Autor: | Nicholas J. Sanders, Matthew Neidell, Alan Barreca |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Pollution
Economics and Econometrics education.field_of_study Natural experiment media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Population Atmospheric pollution Toxicology Productivity (ecology) Environmental protection 0502 economics and business Environmental science Acid rain 050207 economics education Finance 050205 econometrics media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Public Economics. 200:104440 |
| ISSN: | 0047-2727 |
| Popis: | We estimate the effects of long-run pollution exposure on mortality by exploiting the United States Acid Rain Program (ARP) as a natural experiment. We use a difference-in-differences design to compare changes in adult mortality over time driven by installations of sulfur controls on power plants, combined with a model of atmospheric pollution transport. We find that sulfur controls reduced pollution immediately, with smaller relative improvements in the following years. Mortality reductions started small and grew steadily, suggesting cumulative health effects over time. We also find persistent mortality effects for those 35–64 years of age, suggesting the ARP had large productivity gains for the working-age population. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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