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Thematic Session: Sensing air quality: information, experience, and implications for workplace productivity (Streaming) Location: B134 Session Chair: Ludovica Gazze, University of Warwick | |
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Riders in the Smog: How Air Pollution Affects Workers in Urban Environments 1: Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy; 2: Centro Mediterraneo per i Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC); 3: Joint Research Centre, European Commission; 4: Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona Using large-scale high-granularity data from a food delivery platform and granular pollution and weather information, we study how PM2.5 fluctuations affect riders' absenteeism, productivity, and accidents. Exploiting exogenous pollution variation from inverse boundary layer height, we find that higher pollution increases absenteeism for all workers and raises delivery times and accident rates only among (e-)bike riders, who must exert physical effort while working. Affected workers compensate productivity losses by working longer hours. Monetary incentives mitigate the effects on absenteeism but do not offset the decline in productivity and appear to exacerbate accident risk. | |