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Local Air Pollution Impacts Location: B131 Session Chair: Olivier Deschenes, University of California, Santa Barbara | |
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The Decline of Coal and Local Mortality 1: University of Kentucky, United States of America; 2: Georgia Institute of Technology, United States of America; 3: College of Wooster, United States of America The health consequences of sectoral transitions are theoretically ambiguous. Reduced industrial activity and associated pollution may improve health, while economic deterioration may worsen it. We examine these competing forces in the context of coal’s decline, linking restricted-access mortality data with records of coal-fired power plant and mine activity from 2004 to 2019. Power sector contractions reduce elderly mortality, while mining contractions increase mortality, especially among working-age adults. Declines in coal activity increase overdose deaths in both sectors. Pollution reductions alone provide an incomplete account of coal’s health consequences, as environmental and economic channels generate heterogeneous effects across sectors and populations. | |