This is air: The “nonhealth” effects of air pollution

S Aguilar-Gomez, H Dwyer, J Graff Zivin… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
A robust body of evidence shows that air pollution exposure is detrimental to health
outcomes, often measured as deaths and hospitalizations. This literature has focused less …

Ambient air pollution and its influence on human health and welfare: an overview

AA Almetwally, M Bin-Jumah, AA Allam - Environmental Science and …, 2020 - Springer
Human health is closely related to his environment. The influence of exposure to air
pollutants on human health and well-being has been an interesting subject and gained …

The impact of exposure to air pollution on cognitive performance

X Zhang, X Chen, X Zhang - Proceedings of the National …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
This paper examines the effect of both cumulative and transitory exposures to air pollution
for the same individuals over time on cognitive performance by matching a nationally …

The effect of air pollution on migration: Evidence from China

S Chen, P Oliva, P Zhang - Journal of Development Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper looks at the effects of air pollution on migration in China using changes in the
average strength of thermal inversions over five-year periods as a source of exogenous …

Lower test scores from wildfire smoke exposure

J Wen, M Burke - Nature Sustainability, 2022 - nature.com
Wildfires have increased in frequency and severity over the past two decades, threatening to
undo substantial air quality improvements. We investigate the relationship between wildfire …

The effect of pollution on worker productivity: evidence from call center workers in China

TY Chang, J Graff Zivin, T Gross… - … Economic Journal: Applied …, 2019 - aeaweb.org
We investigate the effect of pollution on worker productivity in the service sector by focusing
on two call centers in China. Using precise measures of each worker's daily output linked to …

[HTML][HTML] Heat and learning

RJ Park, J Goodman, M Hurwitz, J Smith - American Economic Journal …, 2020 - aeaweb.org
We demonstrate that heat inhibits learning and that school air conditioning may mitigate this
effect. Student fixed effects models using 10 million students who retook the PSATs show …

Cost of economic growth: Air pollution and health expenditure

F Chen, Z Chen - Science of the Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
This study examines the causal effect of air pollution on health expenditure using a sample
of the China Health and Nutrition Survey in 2015. It concludes that exposure to air pollution …

Happiness in the air: How does a dirty sky affect mental health and subjective well-being?

X Zhang, X Zhang, X Chen - Journal of environmental economics and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Previous studies evaluating the welfare cost of air pollution have not paid much attention to
its potential effect on mental health and subjective well-being (SWB). This paper attempts to …

Air pollution: A systematic review of its psychological, economic, and social effects

JG Lu - Current opinion in psychology, 2020 - Elsevier
Highlights•This review (178 published articles) systematically examines the psychological,
economic, and social effects of air pollution.•It is important to distinguish between the effects …