Full Title: Airports, Air Pollution, and Contemporaneous Health
Author(s): Wolfram Schlenker and W. Reed Walker
Publisher(s): National Bureau of Economic Research
Publication Date: December 1, 2011
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Description (excerpt):
We demonstrate that daily airport runway congestion contributes significantly to local pollution levels and contemporaneous health of residents living nearby and downwind from airports. Our research design exploits the fact that network delays originating from large airports on the East Coast increase runway congestion in California, which in turn increases daily pollution levels around California airports.