Air Pollution Reduces Economic Activity

• Tác giả: A. Patrick Behrer
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 614.71 Forensic medicine; incidence of injuries, wounds, disease; public preventive medicine
• Thông tin xuất bản: World Bank, Washington, DC, 2023
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 299753
• Chủ đề: 1. AIR POLLUTION; 2. ECONOMIC GROWTH; 3. ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; 4. GDP DECLINE; 5. PARTICULATE POLLUTION

Tóm tắt

Exposure to fine particulate pollution (PM2.5) increases mortality and morbidity and reduces human capital formation and worker productivity. As a consequence, high levels of particulate pollution may adversely affect economic activity. Using a novel dataset of changes in the annual gross domestic product of Indian districts, this paper investigates the impact of changes in the level of ambient PM2.5 on district-level gross domestic product. Using daily temperature inversions as an instrument for pollution exposure, this paper finds that higher levels of particulate pollution reduce gross domestic product. The effect is non-trivial-the median annual increase in the level of PM2.5 reduces year-to-year changes in gross domestic product by 0.56 percentage points.