The Healthcare Cost of Air Pollution: Evidence from the World's Largest Payment Network

IF 4.4 2区化学 Q2 MATERIALS SCIENCE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

ACS Applied Polymer Materials Pub Date : 2024-03-18 DOI:10.1162/rest_a_01430

P. Barwick, Shanjun Li, Deyu Rao, N. Zahur

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Abstract

This paper exploits the universe of credit- and debit-card transactions in China during 2013-2015 and provides the first nationwide analysis of the healthcare cost of PM2.5 for a developing country. We leverage spatial spillovers of PM2.5 from long-range transport to generate exogenous variation in local pollution and employ a flexible distributed lag model to capture semiparametrically the dynamic response of pollution exposure. We find significant impacts of PM2.5 on healthcare spending in both the short and medium terms. A 10 μg/m3 decrease in PM2.5 would reduce annual healthcare spending by over $9.2 billion, about 1.5% of China's annual healthcare expenditure.

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空气污染的医疗成本：来自全球最大支付网络的证据

本文利用 2013-2015 年期间中国的信用卡和借记卡交易数据，首次对发展中国家 PM2.5 的医疗成本进行了全国性分析。我们利用远距离运输产生的 PM2.5 空间溢出效应来产生本地污染的外生变化，并采用灵活的分布式滞后模型来捕捉污染暴露的半参数动态响应。我们发现，PM2.5 对短期和中期医疗保健支出都有重大影响。PM2.5 降低 10 μg/m3 将使年医疗支出减少 92 亿美元，约占中国年医疗支出的 1.5%。

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ACS Applied Polymer Materials Multiple-

CiteScore

7.20

自引率

6.00%

发文量

810

期刊介绍： ACS Applied Polymer Materials is an interdisciplinary journal publishing original research covering all aspects of engineering, chemistry, physics, and biology relevant to applications of polymers. The journal is devoted to reports of new and original experimental and theoretical research of an applied nature that integrates fundamental knowledge in the areas of materials, engineering, physics, bioscience, polymer science and chemistry into important polymer applications. The journal is specifically interested in work that addresses relationships among structure, processing, morphology, chemistry, properties, and function as well as work that provide insights into mechanisms critical to the performance of the polymer for applications.