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Air pollution 2 Location: Auditorium F Session Chair: Ivan Ackermann, University of Bern | |
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Is air pollution keeping us up at night? 1: University of Lausanne, Switzerland; 2: University of Passau, Germany Surprisingly little is known about the causal impact of air pollution on human sleep. Using daily district-level data on sleep duration collected by half a million consumer wearables in Germany from 2020 to 2022, we find that even low levels of particulate matter air pollution adversely impact human sleep. We document that a 10 ppm increase in the average daily PM10 concentration reduces sleep duration on average by 1.1 minutes. To strengthen the causal interpretation of our findings, we employ an instrumental variables approach, using wind as a predictor for local air pollution. Although the effects we find are modest, the critical role of sleep in human well-being underscores the substantial social burden of sleep loss caused by air pollution. Our findings offer a potential mechanism linking air pollution to a wide range of human outcomes. | |