Air pollution and infant health: What can we learn from California's recent experience?

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Currie, J; Neidell, M
• 署名单位: University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; National Bureau of Economic Research; Columbia University
• 刊物名称: QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-5533
• DOI: 10.1162/003355305774268219
• 发表日期: 2005
• 页码: 1003-1030
• 关键词: low-birth-weight; utah valley; southern california; CHILDHOOD ASTHMA; pm(10) pollution; children born; mortality; AMBIENT; exposure; QUALITY

摘要

We examine the impact of air pollution on infant death in California over the 1990s. Our work offers several innovations: first, most previous studies examine populations subject to far greater levels of pollution. Second, many studies examine a single pollutant in isolation. We examine three criteria pollutants in a common framework. Third, we use rich individual-level data and pollution measured at the weekly level. Our most novel finding is a significant effect of CO on infant mortality: we find that reductions in carbon monoxide over the 1990s saved approximately 1000 infant lives in California.