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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w22796 |
来源ID | Working Paper 22796 |
The Mortality and Medical Costs of Air Pollution: Evidence from Changes in Wind Direction | |
Tatyana Deryugina; Garth Heutel; Nolan H. Miller; David Molitor; Julian Reif | |
发表日期 | 2016-11-07 |
出版年 | 2016 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | We estimate the causal effects of acute fine particulate matter exposure on mortality, health care use, and medical costs among the US elderly using Medicare data and a novel instrument for air pollution: changes in local wind direction. We develop a new approach that uses machine learning to estimate the life-years lost due to pollution exposure and show that our procedure reduces bias relative to previous methods. Finally, we characterize treatment effect heterogeneity using both life expectancy and generic machine learning inference. Both approaches find that mortality effects are concentrated in about 25 percent of the elderly population. |
主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Environmental and Resource Economics ; Environment |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w22796 |
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/580470 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Tatyana Deryugina,Garth Heutel,Nolan H. Miller,et al. The Mortality and Medical Costs of Air Pollution: Evidence from Changes in Wind Direction. 2016. |
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