Socio-economic consequences of improved indoor air quality in danish primary schools

Indoor Air 2014 - 13th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 953-958

  Wargocki, Pawel ^a   Foldbjerg, Peter ^b   Eriksen, Kurt Emil ^b   Videbæk, Lars Eriksen ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b Energy and Indoor Climate   (Denmark)

^c Slotsholm A S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

IAQ; Productivity; Schools; Socio economics

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ECONOMICS; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; PRODUCTIVITY; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; TEACHING;

GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCTS; IAQ; INDOOR AIR QUALITY; PRIMARY EDUCATION; SCHOOLS; SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES; SOCIO-ECONOMIC EFFECTS; SOCIO-ECONOMICS;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 84924690013     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (14)

1. Bakó-Biró, Z., Clements-Croome, D.J., Kochhar, N., Awbi, H.B. and Williams, M.J. (2012) "Ventilation rates in schools and pupil's ls performance", Building a nd Environment, 48, 215-223.
2. Chetty R, Friedman, J.N., Hilger, N., Saez, E., Schanzenbach, D.W., and Yagan, D. (2010) "How Does Your Kindergarten Classroom Affect Your Earnings? Evidence from Project Star", NBER Working Paper Series, Vol. w16381.
3. Clausen, Larsen and Menå (2009) "Elever undersøger indeklima i klasselokaler - rapport om resultater fra Masseeksperiment 2009" (translated: report about mass experiment). http://masseeksperimentet.danishsciencefactory.dk/sites/default/files/files/fagligrapportmassex2009.pdf
4. Danish Evaluation Institute (2011). "Karakteristik af 10.-klasse-elever" (Characteristics of tenth grade pupils). http://www.eva.dk/projekter/2011/evaluering-af-folkeskolens-10.-klasse
5. DREAM (The Danish Rational Economic Agent Model) (2014) http://www.dreammodel.dk/default-en.html
6. Haverinen-Shaughnessy, U. Moschandreas, D.J. and Shaughnessy, R.J. (2011) "Association between substandard classroom ventilation rates and studen'tsacademic achievement", Indoor Air, 21, 121-131.
7. Hviid, C. A., Wargocki, P., Mortensen, J.D., Lindgreen, T.S. and Holst, M.K. (2013). Well-performing solutions for classroom ventilation (in Danish), Alectia.
8. Mendell, M. J., and Eliseeva, E. A., Davies, M. M., Spears, M., Lobscheid, A., and Fisk, W. J., and Apte, M. G. (2013) Association of classroom ventilation with reduced illness absence: a prospective study in California elementary schools, Indoor Air, 23, 515-528.
9. Milton, D., Glencross, P. and Walters, M. (2000) "Risk of sick-leave associated with outdoor air supply rate, humidification and occupants complaints", Indoor Air, 10, 212-221.
10. OECD (2010). The High Cost of Low Educational Performance. http://www.oecd.org/pisa/44417824.pdf OECD.
11. Shendell, D.G., Prill, R., Fisk, W.J., Apte, M.G., Blake, D. and Faulkner, D. (2004) "Associations between classroom CO2 concentrations and student attendance in Washington and Idaho", Indoor Air, 14, 333-341.
12. Toftum, J., Wargocki, P. and Clausen, G. (2011) International Centre for Indoor Environment and Energy, Technical University of Denmark "Indoor Environment in Schools - Status and Implications", FOA.
13. Wargocki, P., and Wyon, D.P. (2013) Providing better thermal and air quality conditions in school classrooms would be cost-effective, Building and Environment, 59, 581-589.
14. Wargocki, P., Carrer, P., de Oliveira Fernandes, E., Hänninen, O., Kephalopoulos, S., and HEALTHVENT Group (2014). Guidelines for health-based ventilation in Europe. Proc. of Indoor Air 2014.