Air pollution exposure disparities across US population and income groups

A Jbaily, X Zhou, J Liu, TH Lee, L Kamareddine… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Air pollution contributes to the global burden of disease, with ambient exposure to fine
particulate matter of diameters smaller than 2.5 μm (PM2. 5) being identified as the fifth …

Interventions to reduce ambient particulate matter air pollution and their effect on health

J Burns, H Boogaard, S Polus… - Cochrane Database …, 2019 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Ambient air pollution is associated with a large burden of disease in both high‐
income countries (HICs) and low‐and middle‐income countries (LMICs). To date, no …

Disparities in PM2.5 air pollution in the United States

J Colmer, I Hardman, J Shimshack, J Voorheis - Science, 2020 - science.org
Air pollution at any given time is unequally distributed across locations. Average
concentrations of fine particulate matter smaller than 2.5 micrometers in diameter (PM2. 5) …

Do environmental and economic performance go together? A review of micro-level empirical evidence from the past decade or so

A Dechezleprêtre, T Koźluk, T Kruse… - … of Environmental and …, 2019 - eprints.lse.ac.uk
This article reviews the empirical literature combining economic and environmental
performance data at the micro-level, ie firm or facility level. The literature has generally found …

Every breath you take—every dollar you'll make: The long-term consequences of the clean air act of 1970

A Isen, M Rossin-Slater… - Journal of Political …, 2017 - journals.uchicago.edu
This paper examines the long-term impacts of early childhood exposure to air pollution on
adult outcomes using US administrative data. We exploit changes in air pollution driven by …

The transitional costs of sectoral reallocation: Evidence from the clean air act and the workforce

WR Walker - The Quarterly journal of economics, 2013 - academic.oup.com
This article uses linked worker-firm data in the United States to estimate the transitional costs
associated with reallocating workers from newly regulated industries to other sectors of the …

Unwatched pollution: The effect of intermittent monitoring on air quality

EY Zou - American Economic Review, 2021 - aeaweb.org
Intermittent monitoring of environmental standards may induce strategic changes in polluting
activities. This paper documents local strategic responses to a cyclical, once-every-six-day …

Keep your clunker in the suburb: low‐emission zones and adoption of green vehicles

H Wolff - The Economic Journal, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Spatial distribution and leakage effects are of policy concern and increasingly discussed in
the economics literature. We study Europe's most aggressive recent air pollution regulation …

What do economists have to say about the Clean Air Act 50 years after the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency?

J Currie, R Walker - Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2019 - aeaweb.org
Air quality in the United States has improved dramatically over the past 50 years in large part
due to the introduction of the Clean Air Act and the creation of the Environmental Protection …

Hazed and confused: the effect of air pollution on dementia

KC Bishop, JD Ketcham… - Review of Economic …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We study whether long-term cumulative exposure to airborne small particulate matter (PM2.
5) affects the probability that an individual receives a new diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease …