The Mortality and Medical Costs of Air Pollution: Evidence from Changes in Wind Direction

We estimate the causal effects of acute fine particulate matter exposure on mortality, health care use, and medical costs among the US elderly using Medicare data. We instrument for air pollution using changes in local wind direction and develop a new approach that uses machine learning to estimate...

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Published in:	The American economic review Vol. 109; no. 12; p. 4178
Main Authors:	Deryugina, Tatyana, Heutel, Garth, Miller, Nolan H, Molitor, David, Reif, Julian
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States 01.12.2019
Subjects:	I12 J14 Q51 Q53
ISSN:	0002-8282
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