Association of Air Pollution With School Absenteeism Due to Illness

Park, Hyesook; Lee, Boeun; Ha, Eun Hee; Lee, Jong Tae; Kim, Ho; Hong, Yun Chul

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“…(PASCAL et al, 2013). Nas escolas e nos serviços, a melhoria da qualidade do ar diminui os absenteísmos (ROMIEU et al, 1992;CHEN et al, 2000;GILLILAND et al, 2001;PARK et al, 2002;RODRIGUES-SILVA et al, 2012). Adicionalmente, o sistema de transporte, ao gerar menos resíduos poluidores, diminui os danos ao meio ambiente e à saúde da população, seja essa população usuária ou não de veículos.…”

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Avaliação de impacto à saúde do Programa de Controle de Poluição do Ar por Veículos Automotores no município de São Paulo, Brasil

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Miraglia

2018

Rev. Bras. Ciênc. Ambient. (Online)

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Avaliação de impacto à saúde do Programa de Controle de Poluição do Ar por Veículos Automotores no município de São Paulo, Brasil

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Miraglia

2018

Rev. Bras. Ciênc. Ambient. (Online)

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“…There is ample evidence in the literature that shows negative consequences of pollution on labor supply (Aragon et al 2016;Carson et al 2010;Hanna and Oliva 2015;Hausman et al 1984) and on worker productivity (Chang et al 2014;Crocker and Horst 1981;Graff-Zivin and Neidell 2012). There is also evidence that pollution affects school absenteeism, which can further affect work hours for workers taking care of these sick children (Currie et al 2009;Gilliland et al 2001;Park et al 2002).…”

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Medium- and long-term consequences of pollution on labor supply: evidence from Indonesia

2017

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We use a natural experiment in Indonesia to study the medium-and long-term effects of air pollution on labor supply. We find that exposure to air pollution reduces hours worked and while the medium-term effects are larger in magnitude, some effects do persist in the long term. More interestingly, we are able to provide some insight regarding the underlying channels that contribute to the reduced labor supply. Own health seems to be the only responsible channel in the long term, while in the medium term, a different channel based on dependent caregiving is the most important. JEL Classification: J22, Q53

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“…One interpretation is that on "blue sky days" when air quality is relatively good, say, below 50 µg/m 3 , students are more likely to skip school to go to the park or to run errands outdoors. 25 . A nonmonotonic absence response, by which absences initially fall as pollution rises from low levels and subsequently rise, as in column 4, is yet another result we obtain throughout.…”

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“…On a more positive note, our finding that despite the excess pollution the absentee response is not excessive relative to what the literature finds for the US suggests that high-income families from mostly rich countries, stationed temporarily in developing-world megacities, find ways to adapt. For example, moving life indoors and staying inside air-conditioned spaces at home, school, and car, may partly be protective of one's health, even if temporary residence in north China comes at the expense of long-term 10 Table 1 in Currie et al (2009) summarizes the sample, method and findings in Ransom and Pope (1992), Makino (2000), Chen et al (2000), Gilliland et al (2001), and Park et al (2002). Romieu et al (1992) examine ozone-related absences in a panel of 111 preschoolers in Mexico City over three months.…”

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Severe Air Pollution and School Absences: Longitudinal Data on Expatriates in North China

Liu

Salvo

2017

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in Severe Air Pollution and School Absences: Longitudinal Data on Expatriates in North China NOVEMBER 2017Any opinions expressed in this paper are those of the author(s) and not those of IZA. Research published in this series may include views on policy, but IZA takes no institutional policy positions. The IZA research network is committed to the IZA Guiding Principles of Research Integrity. The IZA Institute of Labor Economics is an independent economic research institute that conducts research in labor economics and offers evidence-based policy advice on labor market issues. Supported by the Deutsche Post Foundation, IZA runs the world's largest network of economists, whose research aims to provide answers to the global labor market challenges of our time. Our key objective is to build bridges between academic research, policymakers and society. IZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author. Little is known about how children of high-income expatriate families, often from rich nations, adapt to temporary residence in a severely polluted city of the developing world.We use a six-year panel of 6,500 students at three international schools in a major city in north China to estimate how fluctuation in ambient PM2.5 over the preceding fortnight impacts daily absences. Our preferred estimates are based on the exclusion restriction that absences respond to atmospheric ventilation such as thermal inversions only through ventilation's effect on particle levels. A large and rare 100 to 200 μg/m3 shift in average PM2.5 in the prior week raises the incidence of absences by 1 percentage point, about one-quarter of the sample mean. We find stronger responses for US/Canada nationals than among Chinese nationals, and among students who generally miss school the most.Overall responses are modest compared to the effect on absences from more moderate in-sample variation in pollution estimated for the US using aggregate data. Using school absence patterns as a window into short-run health and behavior, our study suggests that high-income families find ways to adapt, likely by moving life indoors, even if temporary residence in north China comes at the expense of long-term health. JEL Classification:I18, J24, Q51

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Association of Air Pollution With School Absenteeism Due to Illness

Abstract: Air pollution is associated with illness-related absences among elementary students.

Cited by 93 publications

References 27 publications

Avaliação de impacto à saúde do Programa de Controle de Poluição do Ar por Veículos Automotores no município de São Paulo, Brasil

Avaliação de impacto à saúde do Programa de Controle de Poluição do Ar por Veículos Automotores no município de São Paulo, Brasil

Medium- and long-term consequences of pollution on labor supply: evidence from Indonesia

Severe Air Pollution and School Absences: Longitudinal Data on Expatriates in North China

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