空气污染与劳动市场:来自野火烟雾的证据
Air Pollution and the Labor Market: Evidence from Wildfire Smoke
Review of Economics and Statistics · 2022 · [{"name": "Mark Borgschulte", "affiliation": ["University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign", "IZA - Institute of Labor Economics"]}, {"name": "David Molitor", "affiliation": ["University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign"]}, {"name": "Eric Zou", "affiliation": ["University of Michigan"]}]
中文摘要
摘要 我们通过分析飘移野火烟雾的影响，研究空气污染如何影响美国劳动力市场。我们将基于卫星的烟羽数据与劳动力市场结果相联系，估计额外一天的烟雾暴露会使季度收入减少约0.1%。包括就业减少和退出劳动力市场在内的广延边际反应，解释了整体收入损失的13%。空气污染暴露导致收入损失所隐含的福利成本，与死亡负担的标准估值相当。研究发现凸显了劳动力市场渠道在空气污染政策应对中的重要性。
Abstract
Abstract We study how air pollution impacts the U.S. labor market by analyzing the effects of drifting wildfire smoke. We link satellite-based smoke plume data with labor market outcomes to estimate that an additional day of smoke exposure reduces quarterly earnings by about 0.1%. Extensive margin responses, including employment reductions and labor force exits, explain 13% of the overall earnings losses. The implied welfare costs from lost earnings due to air pollution exposure is on par with standard valuations of the mortality burden. The findings highlight the importance of labor market channels in air pollution policy responses.