Economic Status, Air Quality, and Child Health: Evidence from Inversion Episodes

Jans, Jenny; Johansson, Per; Nilsson, Peter

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2396424

Cited by 11 publications

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“…The stress emerging from diverse sources of socioeconomic disadvantage acts as a predisposing factor for the influence of new exposures, that is, an additional adverse event will cause more damage to those already debilitated by long‐term multidimensional disadvantage (McEwen & McEwen, 2017). For example, disadvantaged children are more likely to suffer from mental health issues from cumulative exposure to harsh conditions, which could reduce their ability to cope with exposure to disruptive events (Currie et al., 2010; Jans et al., 2018). These kinds of cumulative disparities have been particularly salient during the COVID‐19 pandemic.…”

Section: Theories On Unequal Response To Disruptive Eventsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Unequal effects of disruptive events

2022

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Disruptive events have significant consequences for the individuals and families who experience them, but these effects do not occur equally across the population. While some groups are strongly affected, others experience few consequences. We review recent findings on inequality in the effects of disruptive events. We consider heterogeneity based on socioeconomic resources, race/ethnicity, the likelihood of experiencing disruption, and contextual factors such as the normativity of the event in particular social settings. We focus on micro-level events affecting specific individuals and families, including divorce, job loss, home loss and eviction, health shocks and deaths, and violence and incarceration, but also refer to macro-level events such as recession and natural disasters. We describe patterns of variation that suggest a process of resource disparities and cumulative disadvantage versus those that reflect the impact of non-normative and unexpected shocks. Finally, we review methodological considerations when examining variation in the effect of disruptive events.

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Section: Theories On Unequal Response To Disruptive Eventsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Unequal effects of disruptive events

2022

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“…To ensure that our instrument meets the exclusion restriction criteria, we control for flexible weather variables so that thermal inversions affect body weight only through air pollution. Thermal inversions have been used as IV for air pollution in several studies, including Hicks et al (2015), Arceo et al, (2016), Chen et al (2017), Fu et al, (2017), Chen et al (2018), andJans et al (2018).…”

Section: Empirical Strategymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Effect of Air Pollution on Body Weight and Obesity: Evidence from China

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Wang

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“…63 Next, we need to provide an estimate of the social costs of air pollution. A growing literature has documented a wide range of channels through which air pollution has adverse effects on societal outcomes, such as low birth weight (Currie and Walker, 2011), respiratory diseases (Jans et al, 2018), lower productivity in both physical and high-skilled work (Graff Zivin and Neidell, 2012;Chang et al, 2016;Ebenstein et al, 2016;Archsmith et al, 2018), criminal activity (Bondy et al, 2020), etc. Factoring in all these different channels, and adapting them to our research context, is not necessarily straight forward.…”

Section: D3 Heterogeneous Effectsmentioning

confidence: 99%