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"Valuing Air Pollution's Impact on Labor Productivity in General Equilibrium" Authors: Maniloff, Peter and Andrew Schreiber Abstract This paper assesses the welfare implications of air pollution induced labor productivity improvements in a computable general equilibrium framework. We document that labor market productivity changes associated with a one mu g / m^3 reduction in PM2.5 can have a large welfare impact. Variation in the existing econometric evidence produces a range of possible welfare effects equal to approximately $950-3000 per household per year which is 50-160% of the estimated mortality impacts. Accounting for general equilibrium effects increases the welfare effect by roughly 45% relative to a back of the envelope estimate. Allowing for sector-specific shocks or impacts to leisure preferences have little effect on aggregate results. We also find that the aggregate welfare effect is approximately proportional to the shock size. |
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- Environmental policies - Domestic policy analysis - Labor market issues - Advances in quantitative methods - Dynamic modeling - North America |
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