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Severe Air Pollution and School Absences: Longitudinal Data on Expatriates in North China

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  • Haoming Liu
  • Alberto Salvo

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The paper uses a six-year panel of 6,500 students at three international schools in a major city in north China to estimate how fluctuation in ambient PM2.5 over the preceding fortnight impacts daily absences. The preferred estimates are based on the exclusion restriction that absences respond to atmospheric ventilation such as thermal inversions only through ventilation’s effect on particle levels.

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  • Haoming Liu & Alberto Salvo, 2017. "Severe Air Pollution and School Absences: Longitudinal Data on Expatriates in North China," Working Papers id:12240, eSocialSciences.
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    Keywords

    school absences; air pollution; particulate matter; PM2.5; acute exposure; longitudinal study; heterogeneous effects; thermal inversions; atmospheric ventilation; environmental health; environmental damage; environmental valuation; avoidance behavior; distributed lags; instrumental variables;
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    JEL classification:

    • I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • Q51 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Valuation of Environmental Effects

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