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Local Air Pollution Impacts Location: B131 Session Chair: Olivier Deschenes, University of California, Santa Barbara | |
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A Breath of Fresh Air? Fossil Fuel Electricity Phase Outs and the Long-Run Costs of Chronic Pollution Exposure 1: CREST, Institut Polytechnique de Paris; 2: Univeristy of Bonn, Germany; 3: Paris School of Economics, CNRS; 4: London School of Economics; 5: Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale, Inserm This paper quantifies the long-term economic costs of ambient air pollution by constructing novel measures of individual lifetime exposure to emissions from French fossil fuel power plants over 1950–2022, accounting for residential mobility. Exploiting quasi-experimental variation generated by France's 1980s government-led transition to nuclear energy and subsequent phase-out of coal- and oil-fired power plants, we estimate the effects of early-life and cumulative electricity-related pollution exposure on adult employment, earnings, and health. We find that greater long-run exposure significantly reduces career-average annual earnings, with effects partly mediated by adverse health impacts from exposure before age five. The implied gains from this early French fossil phase-out are substantial: within 80 kilometers of plants, individuals born after 1985 are predicted to earn 2.2 percent higher wages than those born before 1965. | |