Population density and urban air quality

By Rainald Borck, Philipp Schrauth. Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2021

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We use panel data from Germany to analyze the effect of population density on urban air pollution (nitrogen oxides, particulate matter and ozone). To address unobserved heterogeneity and omitted variables, we present long difference/fixed effects estimates and instrumental variables estimates, using historical population and soil quality as instruments. Our preferred estimates imply that a one-standard deviation increase in population density increases air pollution by 3-12%.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/ec460aaf10eed0e4b309fbe29343a9e838cbb010

Citations in the corpus

• The economic effects of density: A synthesis (2019, unknown): “Our estimate has been confirmed by two recent studies (Carozzi & Roth 2018; Borck & Schrauth 2018).”