{"title":"Air Pollution, Cognitive Performance, and the Role of Task Proficiency","authors":"Benjamin Krebs, Simon Luechinger","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3947149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3947149","url":null,"abstract":"We estimate the acute effect of air pollution on cognitive performance and how the effect varies with training and task proficiency using data of over 25,000 individuals and 927,000 plays of a popular online arithmetic training game. To isolate exogenous pollution fluctuation, we interact spatial variation in NOx emissions with thermal inversion episodes. This exogenous variation negatively affects cognitive performance of proficient players, but not of beginners. Instrumenting NO2 pollution with the emissions × inversion interaction, we find that a 1 ppb concentration increase lowers the number of correct answers of proficient individuals by 0.5 and by 0.2 overall.","PeriodicalId":267271,"journal":{"name":"Planetary Health eJournal","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132034790","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lagged Particulate Matter, Contagions and Deaths: The Relationship between Quality of Air and COVID-19 at European Level","authors":"L. Becchetti, G. Beccari, D. De Santis","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3926643","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3926643","url":null,"abstract":"A research hypothesis on the nexus between air pollution and adverse COVID-19 outcomes postulates that particulate matter (PM) can be a carrier of the virus. Preliminary evidence through analysis of small PM samples has shown that this is the case but the strength of the transmission channel (impact of it on confirmed cases and deaths) has not been tested. We perform this test on daily atmospheric data at European regional level provided by the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) and find that air concentration of PM2.5 and PM10 positively affects confirmed cases and deaths, the effect peaking at 6-8 day lags for confirmed cases and 13th lag for deaths. The nexus is robust after controlling for fixed effects and under several robustness and causality checks.","PeriodicalId":267271,"journal":{"name":"Planetary Health eJournal","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133920275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Becchetti, Gianluigi Conzo, P. Conzo, Francesco Salustri
{"title":"Understanding the Heterogeneity of Adverse COVID-19 Outcomes: The Role of Poor Quality of Air and Lockdown Decisions","authors":"L. Becchetti, Gianluigi Conzo, P. Conzo, Francesco Salustri","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3572548","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3572548","url":null,"abstract":"The uneven geographical distribution of the novel coronavirus epidemic (COVID-19) in Italy is a puzzle given the intense flow of movements among the different g","PeriodicalId":267271,"journal":{"name":"Planetary Health eJournal","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124417231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis of the Effect of Economic Performance and Population on Natural Disaster Death in Indonesia","authors":"I. Santoso, Sony Kristiyanto","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3489815","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3489815","url":null,"abstract":"Natural disaster will always have a detrimental impact on human life. Losses due to natural disasters can in form of loss of property or loss of life. Indonesia’s geographical position in the meeting of two rings of fire makes Indonesia very vulnerable to natural disaster. Departing from these thoughts, this study tries to analyze more deeply about some of the variables thought to be able to influence the number of deaths caused by natural disasters in Indonesia. Those variables are income per capita and numbers of population. This research is using shock absorber model approach which can accommodate shock variable in the shortrun. By using time series data from 1972 to 2018, This research came to the conclusion that income per capita and shock variable have positive and significant relationship to natural disaster death. Numbers of population have a positive but not significant relationship to natural disaster death. furthermore, natural disaster death in this research also determine by previous disaster.","PeriodicalId":267271,"journal":{"name":"Planetary Health eJournal","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134122193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Swetha. T.N, Nageshwar Rao A, C. D., Pradeep Kumar S M, D. Jayashree
{"title":"SAM-The Smart Adaptable Management Jacket","authors":"Swetha. T.N, Nageshwar Rao A, C. D., Pradeep Kumar S M, D. Jayashree","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3511911","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3511911","url":null,"abstract":"People were feeling uncomfortable due to change in temperature day by day. The sudden change in environmental conditions may leads to major health issues. The proposed paper enables us to sense both body temperature, environmental conditions and controls the temperature either manually or automatically. The main components of the paper are Arduino Uno interfaced with a temperature sensor, an LCD display, Peltier module, Bluetooth module, Relay module and Rechargeable battery. The overall operation is to measure the temperature of the body and environmental conditions that displays on LCD module and mobile screen through Bluetooth module. The heater and cooler in turn will help user to provide either warming or chilling effects inside the jacket. This jacket acts as a guard and helps people to work comfortable irrespective of the weather conditions against the temperature variations.","PeriodicalId":267271,"journal":{"name":"Planetary Health eJournal","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133545330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}