Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/281175 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
QBS Working Paper No. 2024/01
Publisher: 
Queen's University Belfast, Queen's Business School, Belfast
Abstract: 
Extensive evidence shows exposure to ambient PM2.5 is associated with a wide range of poor health outcomes. But few studies examine genuinely long-run pollution exposures in nationally representative data. This study does so, exploiting longitudinally-linked Census data for Northern Ireland, linked to annual average PM2.5 concentrations at the 1km grid-square level from 2002-2010, exploiting complete residential histories. We show strong unconditional associations between PM2.5 exposure, self-rated general health, disability, and all available (eleven) domain-specific health measures in the data. Associations with poor general health, chronic illness, breathing difficulties, mobility difficulties, and deafness are robust to extensive conditioning and to further analysis designed to examine sensitivity to unobserved confounders.
Subjects: 
Long-term exposure to ambient air pollution
PM2.5
population health
linked Census data
neighbourhood fixed effects
Oster method for unobserved confounding
JEL: 
I10
I18
Q53
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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