Air pollution, economic activity and respiratory illness: Evidence from Canadian cities, 1974-1994

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 873-885

  Koop, Gary ^a   McKitrick, Ross ^b   Tole, Lise ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Bayesian averaging; Income; Model uncertainty; Respiratory illness

Indexed keywords

AIR CONTAMINANTS; BAYESIAN; BAYESIAN MODEL AVERAGING; COVARIATES; DATA BASE; ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES; GENERAL SPECIFICATION; HEALTH EFFECTS; HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS; MODEL SELECTION; MODEL UNCERTAINTIES; MODEL UNCERTAINTY; MODELING APPROACH; POLLUTION LEVEL; RESPIRATORY ILLNESS; URBAN AIR POLLUTION;

AIR QUALITY; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; ECONOMICS; POLLUTION; SPECIFICATIONS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DATABASE; ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; HOSPITAL SECTOR; INCOME; RESPIRATORY DISEASE; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; URBAN POLLUTION;

CANADA;

EID: 77949570495     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2010.01.010     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. Adamowicz W., Dales R., Hale B.A., Hrudey S., Krupnick A., Lippmann M., McConnell J., and Renzi P. A Review of the Socio-Economic Models and Related Components Supporting the Development of Canada-Wide Standards for Particulate Matter and Ozone (2001), Royal Society of Canada, Ottawa
2. Basrur S. Air Pollution Burden of Illness in Toronto (May 2000), Toronto Board of Public Health, Mimeo
3. Bates D., and Sizto R. Relationship between air pollution levels and hospital admissions in Southern Ontario. Cdn. J. Pub. Health 74 (1983) 117-122
4. Brown J., et al. Environmental Indicators. sixth ed. (2004), The Fraser Institute, Vancouver, British Columbia
5. Burnett R., Doiron M.S., Stieb D., Raizenne M.E., Brook J.R., Dales R.E., Leech J.A., Cakmak S., and Krewski D. Association between ozone and hospitalization for acute respiratory diseases in Children less then 2 Years of age. Am. J. Epidemiol. 153 5 (2001) 444-452
6. Burnett R.T., Brook J.R., Yung W.T., Dales R.E., and Krewski D. Association between ozone and hospitalization for respiratory diseases in 16 Canadian cities. Environ. Res. 72 (1997) 24-31
7. Burnett R.T., Cakmak S., Brook J.R., and Krewski D. The role of particulate size and chemistry in the association between summertime ambient air pollution and hospitalization for cardiorespiratory diseases. Environ. Health Perspect. 105 (1997) 614-620
8. Burnett R.T., Cakmak S., and Brook J.R. The effect of the urban ambient air pollution mix on daily mortality rates in 11 Canadian Cities. Can. J. Public Health 89 3 (1998) 152-156
9. Chay K., and Greenstone M. The impact of air pollution on infant mortality: evidence from geographic variation in pollution shocks induced by a recession. Q. J. Econ. 118 (2003) 1121-1167
10. Chay K., Dobkin C., and Greenstone M. The clean air act of 1970 and adult mortality. J. Risk Uncertain. 27 3 (2003) 279-300
11. Clyde M. Model uncertainty and health effect studies for particulate matter. Environmetrics 11 (2000) 745-764
12. Clyde M., and DeSimone-Sasinowska H. Accounting for Model Uncertainty in Poisson Regression Models: Particulate Matter and Mortality in Birmingham, Alabama (1997), Institute of Statistics and Decisions Sciences, Duke University Discussion Paper 97-06
13. Currie J., and Niedell M. Air Pollution and Infant Health: What Can We Learn from California's Recent Experiment? (January 2004), National Bureau of Economic Research Discussion Paper 10251
14. Currie J., and Niedell M. Air pollution and infant health: what can we learn from California's recent experiment?. Q. J. Econ. 120 (2005) 1003-1030
15. Cutler, David M., Deaton, Angus S., Adriana Lleras-Muney. 2006 The Determinants of Mortality. NBER Working Paper 11963, January 2006.
16. Dominici F., Michael D., Zeger S.L., and Samet J.M. Air pollution and mortality: estimating regional and national dose-response relationships. J. Am. Stat. Assoc. 97 457 (2002) 1-12
17. Draper D. Assessment and propagation of model uncertainty (with discussion). Environ. Res. Ser. B. 56 (1995) 45-98
18. Fernandez C., Ley E., and Steel M. Benchmark priors for Bayesian model averaging. J. Econom. 100 (2001) 381-427
19. Gerdtham U.-G., and Johannesson M. Absolute income, relative income, income Inequality and mortality. J. Hum. Resour. 39 1 (2004) 228-247
20. Goldberg M.S., Burnett R.T., Bailar III J.C., Brook J., Bonvalot Y., Tamblyn R., Singh R., and Valois M.-F. The association between daily mortality and ambient particle pollution in Montreal, Quebec. Environ. Res. Sect. A. 86 (2001) 12-25 10.1006/enrs.2001.4242
21. Government of Canada. Canadian Environmental Protection Act [CEPA] Environmental Registry Notice of Intent to develop and implement regulations and other measures to reduce air emissions (2006).
22. Green L., and Armstrong S. Particulate matter in ambient air and mortality: toxicologic perspectives. Regul. Toxicol. Pharmacol. 38 (2003) 326-335
23. Hodges J. Uncertainty, policy analysis and statistics. Stat. Sci. 2 (1987) 259-291
24. Hoeting J., Madigan D., Raftery A., and Volinsky C. Bayesian model averaging: a tutorial. Stat. Sci. 14 (1999) 382-417
25. Jorgensen D.W., and Wilcoxen P.J. Environmental regulation and U.S. economic growth. Rand. J. Econ. 21 2 (1990) 314-340
26. Koop G. Bayesian Econometrics (2003), John Wiley and Sons, New York
27. Koop G., and Tole L. Measuring the health effects of air pollution: to what extent can we really say that people are dying from bad air?. J. Environ. Econ. Manage. 47 (2004) 30-54
28. Koop G., and Tole L. An Investigation of thresholds in air pollution mortality effects. Environmental Modelling & Software. 21 12 (2006) 1662-1673
29. Madigan D., and York J. Bayesian graphical models for discrete data. Int. Stat. Rev. 63 (1995) 215-232
30. Moulton B.R. An illustration of a pitfall in estimating the effects of aggregate variables on micro units. Rev. Econ. Stat. 72 2 (1990) 334-338
31. Neidell M.J. Air pollution, health and socio-economic status: the effect of outdoor air quality on childhood asthma. J. Health. Econ. 23 (2004) 1209-1236
32. Neidell M.J. Public Information and Avoidance Behavior: Do People Respond to Smog Alerts? (February 2006), Columbia University, Mimeo
33. Ontario Medical Association (OMA). 2000. Illness Cost of Air Pollution. Prepared by DSS Management Consultants, June 2000.
34. O' Neill, June, E., O' Neill, Dave, M. 2007 Health Status, Health Care and Inequality: Canada vs. the US. NBER Working Paper 13429, September 2007.
35. Poirier D. Intermediate Statistics and Econometrics: a Comparative Approach (1995), The MIT Press, Cambridge
36. Pope C.A. Respiratory hospital admissions associated with PM10 pollution in Utah, Salt Lake, and Cache Valleys. Arch. Environ. Health (March-April 1991)
37. Samet J.M., Dominici F., Curriero F.C., Coursac I., and Zeger S.L. Fine particulate air pollution and mortality in 20 U.S. cities, 1987-1994. N. Engl. J. Med. 343 no. 24 (2000) 1742-1749
38. Schwartz J. Air pollution and daily mortality in Birmingham Alabama. Am. J. Epidemiol. 137 (1993) 1136-1147
39. Schwartz J. Air pollution and hospital admissions for the elderly in Birmingham, Alabama. Am. J. Epidemiol. 139 (1994) 589-598
40. Smith R.L., Davis J.M., Sacks J., Speckman P., and Styer P. Regression models for air pollution and daily mortality: analysis of data from Birmingham, Alabama. Environmetrics 11 2000 (2000) 719-743
41. Stieb D.M., Judek S., and Burnett R.T. Meta-analysis of time-series studies of air pollution and mortality: effects of gases and particles and the influence of cause of death, age, and season. J. Air. Waste. Manage. Assoc. 52 4 (2002) 470-484
42. Thomas D.C., Michael J., Nino K., Thomas A.L., Francesca D., Scott Z., Joel S., Richard T.B., Daniel K., and David B. Bayesian model averaging in time-series studies of air pollution and mortality. J. Toxicol. Environ. Health Part A 70 (2007) 311-315 10.1080/15287390600884941
43. Thurston G.D., Ito K., Hayes C.G., Bates D.V., and Lippmann M. Respiratory hospital admissions and summertime haze air pollution in Toronto, Ontario: consideration of the role of acid aerosols. Environ. Res. 65 (1994) 271-290
44. Toronto Public Health, 2007. Air Pollution Burden of Illness from Traffic in Toronto: Problems and Solutions. Toronto: City of Toronto.
45. Toronto Public Health, 2004. Air Pollution Burden of Illness in Toronto. Toronto: City of Toronto.
46. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA). Air Quality Criteria for Particulate Matter. Second External Review Draft, EPA 600/P-99/002aB Office of Research and Development (2001)
47. World Bank, Washington, DC. World Development Indicators (1998), WB, Washington