Air Pollution, Cognitive Performance, and the Role of Task Proficiency

被引：3
作者：
Krebs, Benjamin [1 ]
Luechinger, Simon [2 ]
机构：
[1] MIT, Ctr Energy & Environm Policy Res, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[2] Univ Lucerne, Fac Econ & Management, Luzern, Switzerland
来源：
JOURNAL OF THE ASSOCIATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND RESOURCE ECONOMISTS | 2024年 / 11卷 / 04期
基金：
瑞士国家科学基金会;
关键词：
J24; Q53; air pollution; cognitive performance; STUDENT HEALTH; QUALITY; PRODUCTIVITY; INDOOR; CONSEQUENCES; ASSOCIATION; MORTALITY;
D O I：
10.1086/728270
中图分类号：
F [经济];
学科分类号：
02 ;
摘要：
We estimate the acute effect of air pollution on cognitive performance and how the effect varies with task proficiency using data from over 25,000 individuals and 925,000 plays of a popular online arithmetic training game. To isolate exogenous pollution fluctuation, we interact spatial variation in NOx emissions with thermal inversion episodes. This exogenous variation negatively affects the cognitive performance of proficient players but not of beginners. Instrumenting NO2 pollution with the emissions x inversion interaction, we find that a 1 part per billion concentration increase lowers the number of correct answers of proficient individuals by 0.5% and by 0.3% overall.
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页码：921 / 958
页数：38
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