Chinese Yellow Dust and Korean Infant Health

Baek, Deokrye; Altindag, Duha T.; Mocan, Naci

doi:10.3386/w21613

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“…However, Muller, Mendelsohn, and Nordhaus (2011) estimate that the global external damage for US petroleum and coal product manufacturing is 35 percent of the industry's value added. Also, China's pollution has imposed costs on nearby nations such as South Korea (Baek, Altindag, and Mocan 2015;Jia and Ku 2016).…”

Section: Global Environmental Costsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A New Era of Pollution Progress in Urban China?

Zheng

Kahn

2017

Journal of Economic Perspectives

156

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Over the last 30 years, China's economy has boomed. This trend has lifted hundreds of millions of Chinese out of poverty but it has also sharply increased local, regional, and global pollution levels. We look at the rise in air pollution over recent decades, and the perhaps surprising finding that in many of China's urban areas, levels of particulates (of less than 10 microns) have been decreasing during the last 10 to 15 years. We then turn to the costs and tradeoffs of air pollution, including costs to human health, reductions in worker productivity, and how people are seeking to reduce their exposure to pollution as shown by compensating differentials in real estate prices and purchases of masks and air filters. We discuss how rising incomes tend to raise the demand for environmental amenities and thus increase political pressure for environmental protection, and then we turn to the policy tools that China has used to reduce pollution. We conclude by arguing that as China's government is preparing for an additional 300 million people to move to urban areas over the next 30 years, it will have a number of opportunities for China to reduce pollution through a shift from manufacturing to services, along with various steps to improve energy efficiency and resource conservation. Overall, it seems that China is on track to improve its environmental performance in the years ahead.

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Section: Global Environmental Costsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A New Era of Pollution Progress in Urban China?

Zheng

Kahn

2017

Journal of Economic Perspectives

156

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“…Currie and Schmeider (2009), Agarwal et al (2010) and Persico et al (2016) study the effects of toxic releases. There is also growing evidence about exposure to water pollution (Gamber-Rabindran et al 2010), exposure to radiation (Almond et al 2009, Black et al 2013 and to dust clouds (Baek et al 2015, Arthi et al 2016.…”

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The Lifelong Costs of Urban Smogs

Ball¹

2017

SSRN Journal

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“…The government has tried to reduce exposure to yellow dust; A warning system was developed with behavioral guidelines when PM 10 levels exceed a certain threshold. These advisories have been linked to better health outcomes in children and higher birth weight of newborns [34].…”

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Saharan Dust and Childhood Respiratory Symptoms in Benin

McElroy

Dimitrova

Evan

et al. 2022

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Mineral dust is one of the largest natural constituents of coarse particulate matter (PM10). Most of these dust emissions originate from northern Africa, and several hundred tera-grams of dust are emitted annually from this region. Previous evidence has linked dust PM10 to adverse respiratory outcomes in children. However, most of these studies have been from high-income countries (HICs) or examined dust from other regions of the world, mainly Asia. Evidence from low-to-middle-income countries (LMICs) in Africa is scarce. Respiratory infections are one of the leading causes of under-five mortality across the globe. However, there is a poignant disparity in studies examining these outcomes in children in the region where most dust is emitted. This study linked remotely sensed satellite data to a nationally representative survey to examine acute exposure to dust in children living in Benin using a time-stratified case-crossover analysis. We identified acute effects of exposure to dust and increased risk of cough in children under five. The effect of increased risk is strongest within two weeks of exposure and dissipates by four weeks. Children living in rural areas and households with lower income had a greater risk of adverse respiratory outcomes when exposed to dust. We could elucidate the specific period and conditions of increased risk for respiratory problems in children living in Benin.

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Chinese Yellow Dust and Korean Infant Health

Cited by 4 publications

References 3 publications

A New Era of Pollution Progress in Urban China?

A New Era of Pollution Progress in Urban China?

The Lifelong Costs of Urban Smogs

Saharan Dust and Childhood Respiratory Symptoms in Benin

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