A robust body of evidence shows that air pollution exposure is detrimental to health outcomes, often measured as deaths and hospitalizations. This literature has focused less on subclinical channels that nonetheless impact behavior, performance, and skills. This article reviews the economic research investigating the causal effects of pollution on nonhealth end points, including labor productivity, cognitive performance, and multiple forms of decision-making. Subclinical effects of pollution can be more challenging to observe than formal health care encounters but may be more pervasive if they affect otherwise healthy people. The wide variety of possible impacts of pollution should be informed by plausible mechanisms and require appropriate hypothesis testing to limit false discovery. Finally, any detected effects of pollution, in both the short and long run, may be dampened by costly efforts to avoid exposure ex ante and remediate its impacts ex post; these costs must be considered for a full welfare analysis.

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这就是空气：空气污染的“非健康”影响


大量证据表明，空气污染暴露对健康结果有害，通常以死亡和住院来衡量。这些文献较少关注影响行为、表现和技能的亚临床渠道。本文回顾了调查污染对非健康终点的因果影响的经济研究，包括劳动生产率、认知表现和多种形式的决策。与正式的医疗保健接触相比，污染的亚临床影响可能更具挑战性，但如果它们影响到其他方面健康的人，则可能会更加普遍。污染的各种可能影响应该通过合理的机制来了解，并需要适当的假设检验来限制错误发现。最后，任何检测到的污染影响，无论是短期还是长期，都可能通过避免事前暴露和事后补救其影响的昂贵努力而受到抑制;在进行全面的福利分析时，必须考虑这些成本。