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Thematic Session 5: Air Pollution and the Economy: A Global Perspective (HYBRID) Location: Auditorium M: Jan Mossin Session Chair: Ruozi Song, World Bank Session Chair: Carolyn Fischer, World Bank | |
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Air Pollution Reduces Economic Activity: Evidence from India The World Bank, United States of America Exposure to fine particulate pollution has a variety of adverse economic impacts. Using a novel dataset of changes in the annual gross domestic product of Indian districts, this paper investigates the impact of changes in the level of ambient PM2.5 on district-level gross domestic product. Using daily temperature inversions as an instrument for pollution exposure, this paper finds that higher levels of particulate pollution reduce gross domestic product. The effect is non-trivial— the median annual increase in the level of PM2.5 reduces year-to-year changes in gross domestic product by 0.56 percentage points. | |