Author: Tanaka, S.
Title: Long-Term Downwind Exposure to Air Pollution from Power Plants and Adult Mortality: Evidence from COVID-19 Cord-id: moqga8cm Document date: 2020_11_24
ID: moqga8cm
Snippet: We estimate the causal effects of long-term exposure to air pollution emitted from fossil fuel power plants on adult mortality. We leverage quasi-experimental variation in daily wind patterns, which is further instrumented by the county orientation from the nearest power plant. We find that the average county's fraction of days spent downwind of plants within 20 miles in the last 10 years is associated with a 27.6 percent increase in mortality from COVID-19. This effect is more pronounced in fen
Document: We estimate the causal effects of long-term exposure to air pollution emitted from fossil fuel power plants on adult mortality. We leverage quasi-experimental variation in daily wind patterns, which is further instrumented by the county orientation from the nearest power plant. We find that the average county's fraction of days spent downwind of plants within 20 miles in the last 10 years is associated with a 27.6 percent increase in mortality from COVID-19. This effect is more pronounced in fence line communities with high poverty rates and a large proportion of Black population.
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