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Pollution and Mortality in the United States: Evidence from 1972-1988
We estimate the effect of sulfur dioxide (SO2) exposure on US population mortality over the period 1972-1988. Using changes in wind direction as an instrument for daily SO2 levels, we show that acute pollution exposure produces both short-run mortality displacement as well as delayed mortality effects in the month following exposure. On net, we estimate that a one-day, one part-per-billion increase in SO2 raises monthly mortality by 0.18 deaths per million. We then incorporate our estimates into a dynamic production model of health to quantify the lifelong effects of chronic pollution exposure. Model calculations of the effect of a permanent one-unit increase in SO2 exposure are 5-12 times larger than a simple linear scaling of the IV estimates of acute exposure.
Date:
27 February 2023, 16:05
Venue:
Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details:
Lecture theatre or https://zoom.us/j/92415955348?pwd=ME5ybjVBVk90aThHdkcwVnZiUWF4Zz09
Speaker:
Tatyana Deryugina (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Organising department:
Department of Economics
Part of:
Environment and Resource Economics Seminar
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Emma Heritage
