The Impact of Short Term Exposure to Ambient Air Pollution on Cognitive Performance and Human Capital Formation

By Victor Lavy, A. Ebenstein, Sefi Roth. 2014

154 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Nico Pestel
2. Lutz Sager
3. Andreas Lichter
4. Yongxiang Wang
5. E. Sommer
6. T. Chang
7. Anthony Heyes
8. Wei Huang

In Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

1. Lutz Sager
2. Yongxiang Wang
3. T. Chang
4. Wei Huang

In Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

1. Nico Pestel
2. Lutz Sager
3. Andreas Lichter
4. E. Sommer

Citations in the corpus

• Estimating the effect of air pollution on road safety using atmospheric temperature inversions (2016, background): “Lay et al. (2014) find that elevated levels of small particulate matter below 2.5µm (PM2.”
• East-Side Story: Historical Pollution and Persistent Neighborhood Sorting (2016, unknown): “(4)There is also a broad body of literature on pollution exposure and its effect on productivity (Graff Zivin and Neidell, 2012), cognitive performance (Lavy et al., 2014), violent crime (Herrnstadt and Muehlegger, 2015; Heyes and Saberian, 2015), and health (Graff Zivin and Neidell, 2013; Anderson,”
• Temperature and Decisions: Evidence from 207,000 Court Cases (2019, background): “Much of the related literature on short-term effects of weather and air quality on human outcomes has used the calendar day as its unit of analysis (for examples, Hirshleifer and Shumway (2003), Lavy et al. (2016) and Park (2016)).”
• Something in the Air: Pollution and the Demand for Health Insurance (2018, background): “…to a small but rapidly growing literature documenting the impact of air pollution on non-health outcomes: labour productivity (Graff Zivin and Neidell, 2012; Hanna and Oliva, 2015; Chang et al., 2014, 2016), student test scores (Lavy et al., 2014), and crime (Herrnstadt and Muehlegger, 2015).”
• Productivity Effects of Air Pollution: Evidence from Professional Soccer (2017, background): “…of environmental damage are not limited to population health, with air pollution impacting the formation of human capital by affecting absenteeism, schooling outcomes or labor supply3, and hence triggering long-term consequences for individual earnings (Isen et al., 2014; Lavy et al., 2014a,b).”