| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w24686 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 24686 |
| Air Pollution and Mental Health: Evidence from China | |
| Shuai Chen; Paulina Oliva; Peng Zhang | |
| 发表日期 | 2018-06-11 |
| 出版年 | 2018 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | A large body of literature estimates the effect of air pollution on health. However, most of these studies have focused on physical health, while the effect on mental health is limited. Using the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) covering 12,615 urban residents during 2014 – 2015, we find significantly positive effect of air pollution – instrumented by thermal inversions – on mental illness. Specifically, a one-standard-deviation (18.04 μg/m3) increase in average PM2.5 concentrations in the past month increases the probability of having a score that is associated with severe mental illness by 6.67 percentage points, or 0.33 standard deviations. Based on average health expenditures associated with mental illness and rates of treatment among those with symptoms, we calculate that these effects induce a total annual cost of USD 22.88 billion in health expenditures only. This cost is on a similar scale to pollution costs stemming from mortality, labor productivity, and dementia. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Development and Growth ; Country Studies ; Environmental and Resource Economics ; Environment |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w24686 |
| 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/582358 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Shuai Chen,Paulina Oliva,Peng Zhang. Air Pollution and Mental Health: Evidence from China. 2018. |
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