Calendrier du 10 novembre 2020
Virtual Development Economics Seminar
Du 10/11/2020 de 17:00 à 18:15
SVENSSON Jakob (IIES, Stockholm University)
Market Access and Quality Upgrading: Evidence from Randomized Experiments
Paris Trade Seminar
Du 10/11/2020 de 14:45 à 16:15
Using Zoom
GAUBERT Cécile (Berkeley, visiting à Science Po)
Place-Based Redistribution
écrit avec Pat Kline and Danny Yagan
Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 10/11/2020 de 12:30 à 13:30
via ZOOM
LEROUTIER Marion (PSE)
Maritime Traffic, Air Pollution and Short-Term Health: Evidence from a Large Port City
écrit avec with Léo Zabrocki and Marie-Abèle Bind
Maritime traffic is expected to increase in the coming years due to the growth in international trade and tourism. Today's inhabitants of port cities benefit from the economic activity induced by maritime activities, but they also suffer from local air pollution externalities. These externalities spur protests and are subject to different regulations across the globe. We exploit the quasi-random nature of boat traffic and use a matching procedure to estimate the impact of maritime traffic on local air pollution and health outcomes in Marseille port (France's largest port city). We find that hourly boat traffic variations are associated with small but statistically significant increases in air pollutants known to affect health in both the short- and long-run. We however do not detect any significant impact of daily boat traffic on contemporaneous mortality and hospital emergency admissions. We discuss implications for policies regulating local air pollutants.