全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): The Mortality and Medical Costs of Air Pollution: Evidence from Changes in Wind Direction

G2TT

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.