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Author: Pan, Siyu
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1. Pan, Siyu
Essays on Housing and Locational Choices
Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, Georgia State University, 2020
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Department of Economics, Georgia State University
Keyword(s): Asthma; Environment, Pollution/Urban Density; Geocoded Data; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Migration; Pregnancy and Pregnancy Outcomes

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Chapter 1 provides an important implication for epidemiology, as it implies a naive estimation of the adverse effect of air pollution on health will be biased, as people sort based on air quality differences. This paper provides direct evidence that air-pollution-related health shocks change how a household evaluates clean air and, as a result, incentivize relocation towards better air quality. I employ a spatial equilibrium model, in which a household chooses a county to live in based on the county-level characteristics including air pollution. Using NLSY79 data, I create a panel tracking respondents' respiratory health shocks and county-level location for over three decades. The estimates from a multinomial mixed logit model support the hypothesis that households move toward cleaner air after a female adult is diagnosed with asthma or becomes pregnant. I find that households react more strongly to a new asthma diagnosis for an adult than to a child's diagnosis.
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Pan, Siyu. Essays on Housing and Locational Choices. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, Georgia State University, 2020.
2. Pan, Siyu
Health, Air Pollution, and Location Choice
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 119 (May 2023): 102794.
Also: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0095069623000128
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Elsevier
Keyword(s): Asthma; Environment, Pollution/Urban Density; Geocoded Data; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Migration

This paper provides evidence that air-pollution-related health conditions change how households evaluate clean air and, as a result, incentivize them to relocate to locations with better air quality. The evidence implies that naive estimations of the adverse effect of air pollution on health are biased, as people sort on air quality differently depending on their health. I employ a spatial-equilibrium model in which households choose a county to live in based on county-level characteristics including air pollution. Using National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data, I create a panel tracking respondents' respiratory health shocks and county-level location for over three decades. The estimates from a multinomial mixed logit model support the hypothesis that households move to cleaner-air locations after an adult is diagnosed with asthma. I find that households react more strongly to an asthma diagnosis for an adult than to a child's diagnosis. The estimated median increase in marginal willingness to pay for a one-unit reduction in Air Quality Index after a diagnosis of adult-onset asthma is $157-$830 (in constant 1982-84 dollars).
Bibliography Citation
Pan, Siyu. "Health, Air Pollution, and Location Choice." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 119 (May 2023): 102794.