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Smog in Our Brains: Gender Differences in the Impact of Exposure to Air Pollution on Cognitive Performance
While there is a large body of literature on the negative health effects of air pollution, there is much less written about its effects on cognitive performance for the whole population. This paper studies the effects of contemporaneous and cumulative exposure to air pollution on cognitive performance based on a nationally representative survey in China. By merging a longitudinal sample at the individual level with local air-quality data according to the exact dates and counties of interviews, we find that contemporaneous and cumulative exposure to air pollution impedes both verbal and math scores of survey subjects. Interestingly, the negative effect is stronger for men than for women. Specifically, the gender difference is more salient among the old and less educated in both verbal and math tests.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 10628
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Education and Inequality
Air Pollution; Water Pollution; Noise; Hazardous Waste; Solid Waste; Recycling
Valuation of Environmental Effects
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
- Subject
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cognitive performance
air pollution
gender difference
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Chen, Xi
Zhang, Xiaobo
Zhang, Xin
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
- (where)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2017
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Chen, Xi
- Zhang, Xiaobo
- Zhang, Xin
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2017
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