| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w19944 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 19944 |
| Particulate Pollution and the Productivity of Pear Packers | |
| Tom Chang; Joshua S. Graff Zivin; Tal Gross; Matthew J. Neidell | |
| 发表日期 | 2014-02-27 |
| 出版年 | 2014 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We study the effect of outdoor air pollution on the productivity of indoor workers at a pear-packing factory. We focus on fine particulate matter (PM2.5), a harmful pollutant that easily penetrates indoor settings. We find that an increase in PM2.5 outdoors leads to a statistically and economically significant decrease in packing speeds inside the factory, with effects arising at levels well below current air quality standards. In contrast, we find little effect of PM2.5 on hours worked or the decision to work, and little effect of pollutants that do not travel indoors, such as ozone. This effect of outdoor pollution on the productivity of indoor workers suggests a thus far overlooked consequence of pollution. Back-of-the-envelope calculations suggest that nationwide reductions in PM2.5 from 1999 to 2008 generated $19.5 billion in labor cost savings, which is roughly one-third of the total welfare benefits associated with this change. |
| 主题 | Labor Economics ; Labor Supply and Demand ; Labor Market Structures ; Environmental and Resource Economics ; Environment |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w19944 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/577615 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Tom Chang,Joshua S. Graff Zivin,Tal Gross,et al. Particulate Pollution and the Productivity of Pear Packers. 2014. |
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