Analyzing the relationship between air pollution and various types of crime

Kuo, Pei Fen; Putra, I. Gede Brawiswa

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0255653

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“…At the same time, air pollution can also have a serious impact on human behavior. Lin et al (2022) found that air pollution makes people get jobs nearby, and it also makes people move away from heavily polluted residential areas (Yang et al, 2022), and even increases people's crime rate (Kuo and Putra 2021). However, Chang et al (2016) showed in a study of a pear-packing plant that PM 2.5 with high penetration capacity in outdoor air significantly reduced the productivity of indoor workers, while pollutants with low penetration capacity (e.g., ozone) had almost no significant effect.…”

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Impact of air quality on enterprise productivity: Evidence from Chinese listed companies

Liu

Yang

Cai

2023

Front. Environ. Sci.

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We provide insights and innovative ideas for China to achieve green development and promote high-quality economic development by studying the impact of air quality on enterprise productivity. This paper uses data from 2008 to 2016 for A-share companies listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock markets, as well as the levels of particulate matter under 2.5 μm in diameter for 214 major Chinese cities. At the same time, this paper innovatively applies regression discontinuity and the Spatial Durbin Model for empirical testing. Considering the endogeneity, we choose the air flow index as an instrumental variable and the generalized space two-stage least squares method for the endogenous test. Additionally, we use dynamic regression and different spatial weight matrix to conduct robustness tests and reselect data from 2008 to 2012 and 2013 to 2016 as samples. Moreover, we test corporate heterogeneity from three perspectives: pollutant type, firm equity, and an industry’s technological level. The results show that the deterioration of local air quality significantly inhibits firm productivity, while the spatial spillover effects of pollution from surrounding cities also have a significant dampening effect on firm productivity. This negative effect is transmitted through research and development innovation capacity, human capital, and government subsidies. This empirical evidence from listed companies can be used for evaluating air quality management to enhance enterprise productivity, as well as to provide policy recommendations for boosting firm productivity through improved air quality.

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Impact of air quality on enterprise productivity: Evidence from Chinese listed companies

Liu

Yang

Cai

2023

Front. Environ. Sci.

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“…Air pollution, specifically exposure to PM2.5, has been associated with violent crime (Herrnstadt et al, 2018). Poor air quality has been associated with higher rates of domestic assault (more relevant to an impulsive and reactive act of aggression), to a lesser extent property damage (an act at least somewhat related to impulsivity and cognitive / emotional state), and no relation to cybertheft (P.-F. Kuo & Putra, 2021). These findings suggest that air pollution may be specifically increasing crimes that are affected by individuals' cognitive and emotional states, relating to acts more associated with reactive aggression and impulsivity than "cold", pro-active criminal activity.…”

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Evidence for environmental influences on impulsivity and aggression

Meidenbauer,

Schertz,

Janey

et al. 2023

Preprint

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Research examining the effects of physical environments on individual behaviors often focuses on self-reported exposures or spatially-derived aggregate exposures. However, to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the environmental and economic drivers of behavior, a holistic approach encompassing multiple scales of analysis is needed. To better understand the effects of physical environmental factors on impulsivity and aggression across scales, we leveraged an experience sampling dataset collected in May-September 2022 (N=382) and public data aggregated at the neighborhood level in Chicago. Analysis of participants' trait impulsivity and aggression were collected, along with economic hardship and environmental exposures using both participant-reported and neighborhood-level factors. Significant positive associations were found between impulsivity and exposure to heat stress at home and via urban heat island effects. Aggression was related to greater economic hardship and less tree canopy at the neighborhood level, though positively related to having urban parks. Exploratory analyses of the subtypes of impulsivity and aggression demonstrated that while home heat stress was predictive of all three subtypes of impulsivity, financial hardship was only associated with lack of planning ahead, but not inattentiveness or the tendency to act without thinking. Additionally, exposure to the urban heat island effect was associated with more verbal aggression and trait anger, and economic hardship was only predictive of physical aggression (not verbal, anger, or hostility). While correlational in nature, these results demonstrate that environmental exposures are associated with individual differences in impulsivity and aggression across multiple levels of analysis.

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“…With large-scale industrialization and extensive use of fossil fuels, air pollution strongly affects the quality of human life. Recent theoretical developments have revealed that heavy air pollution from hazy weather not only poses a great threat to physical health but also exacerbates mental health problems and even leads to depression (Gladka et al, 2022), suicide (Sun et al, 2020), and violent crime (Kuo & Putra, 2021).…”

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Impacts of Air Pollution on Chinese Expressions of Happiness on Social Media

Zixuan,

Yichen,

Juntong

et al. 2023

CEAS

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Many studies have demonstrated that air quality is an important factor affecting national well-being. Is there a relationship between air pollution and people’s happiness? To explore this, more than 40,000 haze-related tweets on the Chinese largest microblog platform SinaWeibo were collected. Using daily data for 6 Chinese cities from January 1 to February 12, 2023, we applied natural language processing (NLP) to analyze theWeibo tweets and construct a daily city-level expressed happiness metric. A fixed effects model was applied to reveal the relationship between air pollution and happiness. We found that a one standard deviation rise in the Air Quality Index corresponded to a 0.042 standard deviation fall in the happiness index on average. People in large and rich cities are more sensitive to air pollution, and people suffer more from air pollution on weekends and holidays than on workdays. This project may provide new insights into air pollution and public engagement, and help governments and related institutions to better understand the public’s needs regarding air quality.

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Analyzing the relationship between air pollution and various types of crime

Cited by 11 publications

References 64 publications

Impact of air quality on enterprise productivity: Evidence from Chinese listed companies

Impact of air quality on enterprise productivity: Evidence from Chinese listed companies

Evidence for environmental influences on impulsivity and aggression

Impacts of Air Pollution on Chinese Expressions of Happiness on Social Media

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