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Vahedi, Sajad.

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Three Essays on Environmental Economics: Effects of Air Pollution on Health and Human Capital.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Three Essays on Environmental Economics: Effects of Air Pollution on Health and Human Capital./
Author:	Vahedi, Sajad.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
Description:	171 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-10(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-10A(E).
Subject:	Economics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10275977
ISBN:	9781369761481

Three Essays on Environmental Economics: Effects of Air Pollution on Health and Human Capital.
Vahedi, Sajad.

Three Essays on Environmental Economics: Effects of Air Pollution on Health and Human Capital. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 171 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-10(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 2017.

This dissertation consists of three chapters. Chapter one examines whether spending different amount of time outdoors on weekends and weekdays change the estimates of the impact of ground level ozone on the incidents of respiratory disease and asthma in California. This chapter contributes to the literature that focuses on the short term effect of air pollution on public health. Using the American Time Use Survey data, I find that on average people spend 50 minutes outdoors on weekends more than weekdays. Incorporating this difference in estimating the health impact of ozone changes the results significantly, especially for adults 20-64. The specification also allows me to find a precise estimate for each day of the week.

ISBN: 9781369761481Subjects--Topical Terms:

517137
Economics.

Three Essays on Environmental Economics: Effects of Air Pollution on Health and Human Capital.
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520 $a In chapter two I estimate the effect of exposure to ozone on skills of children aged 3 to 15 years. I use the Letter-Word (LW) test scores from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) as a measure of children's skills. Due to omitted variable bias, OLS estimate of ozone effect on children's skill is positive and imprecisely estimated. To mitigate the omitted variable bias I use the instrumental variables approach. This method accounts for endogeneity of pollution. The effect of ozone on children's skills becomes negative but only marginally significant.
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