The DOI matches its Crossref record; 23 of the 23 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Severe Air Pollution and Labor Productivity: Evidence from Industrial Towns in China
Abstract
We examine day-to-day fluctuations in worker-level output at two manufacturing sites in China. Ambient fine-particle (PM2.5) pollution is severe but significantly variable, largely due to exogenous atmospheric ventilation. We obtain an insignificant immediate output response from concurrent (same-shift) variation in particle pollution. We then allow worker outcomes to respond to day-to-day variation in pollution with up to 30 days of delay. We uncover statistically significant adverse output effects from more prolonged exposure, but effects are not large. A substantial + 10 μg/m 3 PM2.5 variation sustained over 25 days reduces daily output by 1 percent. (JEL J24, O13, P23, P25, P28, Q51, Q53)
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
The contribution of outdoor air pollution sources to premature mortality on a global scale
Lelieveld, J., Evans, J. S., Fnais, M., Giannadaki, D., & Pozzer, A. (2015) · Nature · doi:10.1038/nature15371 · Cited by 5,977
Performance Pay and Productivity
Lazear, E. P. (2000) · American Economic Review · doi:10.1257/aer.90.5.1346 · Cited by 2,487
Angrist, J. D., & Krueger, A. B. (2001) · Journal of Economic Perspectives · doi:10.1257/jep.15.4.69 · Cited by 2,355
Environmental Health Perspectives
Goehl, T. (2002) · Environmental Health Perspectives · doi:10.1289/ehp.110-1240809 · Cited by 1,924
Chen, Y., Ebenstein, A., Greenstone, M., & Li, H. (2013) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.1300018110 · Cited by 1,818
Conley, T. G., Hansen, C. B., & Rossi, P. E. (2012) · Review of Economics and Statistics · doi:10.1162/rest_a_00139 · Cited by 1,161
The Impact of Pollution on Worker Productivity
Zivin, J. G., & Neidell, M. (2012) · American Economic Review · doi:10.1257/aer.102.7.3652 · Cited by 1,067
Temperature and the Allocation of Time: Implications for Climate Change
Graff Zivin, J., & Neidell, M. (2014) · Journal of Labor Economics · doi:10.1086/671766 · Cited by 1,024
Visibility: Science and Regulation
Watson, J. G. (2002) · Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association · doi:10.1080/10473289.2002.10470813 · Cited by 929
van Donkelaar, A., Martin, R. V., Brauer, M., & Boys, B. L. (2015) · Environmental Health Perspectives · doi:10.1289/ehp.1408646 · Cited by 894
Cited by
Nie, Y., Liu, L., Xue, S., Yan, L., Ma, N., Liu, X., Liu, R., Wang, X., Wang, Y., Zhang, X., et al. (2022) · Environmental Science and Pollution Research · doi:10.1007/s11356-022-22901-4 · Cited by 15
Vuong, Q.-H., Le, T.-T., La, V.-P., Vuong, T.-T., & Nguyen, M.-H. (2023) · Urban Science · doi:10.3390/urbansci7020059 · Cited by 9
Metadata
- Authors
- He, J., Liu, H., & Salvo, A.
- Venue
- American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
- Publisher
- American Economic Association
- Published
- 2019-01-01
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 173-201
- ISSN
- 1945-7782 (ISSN-L)
- 1945-7790
- OpenAlex
- W3124390037
- Cited by
- 452
- References
- 23
- FWCI
- 18.93
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Severe Air Pollution and Labor Productivity: Evidence from Industrial Towns in China. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1257/app.20170286
- The paper
- He, J., Liu, H., & Salvo, A. (2019). Severe Air Pollution and Labor Productivity: Evidence from Industrial Towns in China. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. https://doi.org/10.1257/app.20170286
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
