The Effect of Air Pollution on Body Weight and Obesity: Evidence from China

Deschênes, Olivier; Wang, Huixia; Wang, Si; Zhang, Peng

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3390286

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“…This paper focuses on air pollution, a major determinant of climate change, poor health and premature death (Fan et al, 2020;Bombardini and Li, 2020;He et al, 2020;Deschenes et al, 2020). Air pollution also affects economic development by reducing productivity (Fu et al, 2021(Fu et al, , 2022, increasing crime (Bondy et al, 2020), and leading to emigration (Chen et al, 2021).…”

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Importing air pollution? Evidence from China's plastic waste imports

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“…In particular, we calculate the mean BMI of adults other than their parents by parental province and age cohort. Since weight can be affected by age and environment (Bolton et al., 2014; Deschenes et al., 2020; Kahan & Mehrzad, 2020; Reither et al., 2009), parental weight can be correlated with the cohort‐level parental BMI. Thus, we believe that cohort‐level average parental BMI satisfies the correlation condition: adolescent weight should be correlated with cohort‐level parental BMI if it is correlated with parental BMI 4 .…”

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Does weight impact adolescent mental health? Evidence from China

Wang

Yang

2022

Health Economics

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In this paper, we examine the causal impact of weight on adolescent mental health. Using the China Family Panel Studies, we find significant negative effects of adolescent weight, instrumented by cohort‐level parental body mass index (BMI), on mental illness. In particular, a one standard deviation increase in adolescent BMI z‐score decreases the K6 score by 0.766 (or 0.232 standard deviations). This finding is contrary to recent evidence from adults. We find this contrast can partly be explained by the different impacts of adolescent weight on self‐image and social relationships. Unlike adults, heavy adolescents feel that they are popular among peers in China.

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“…Second, haze pollution increases the health risks of being outdoors (Deschenes et al, 2020) and weakens the willingness of rice farmers to work outdoors, which pushes the farmers to use more pesticides instead of carrying out outdoor work. Third, farmers are increasingly using green prevention and control technology for tobacco and rice (Dan et al 2012) cultivation to dispose of pests and diseases, but haze pollution weakens its effectiveness, thus obliging rice farmers to using increasing amounts of pesticides.…”

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“…Second, residents have a powerful motivation to adopt energy-saving measures under the influence of haze pollution (Zhao et al, 2019). Third, PM2.5 reduces the subjective well-being of Chinese residents by affecting their physical health (Shi and Yu, 2020).With an increase of the density of the particles like PM2.5, the rates of overweight and obesity significantly increase (Deschenes et al, 2020). Although there have been many studies concerning haze, few studies have examined the effects of haze on pesticide use by rice farmers.…”

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Effects of haze pollution on pesticide use by rice farmers: fresh evidence from rural areas of China

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Cao

Huang

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Environ Sci Pollut Res

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Recently, serious haze pollution has not only threatened the human health and food security, but also seems to have aggravated the unscientific use of pesticides by rice farmers in rural area of China. Using original data on haze pollution across China, combined with rural household survey data collected from 2014 to 2018, we conducted a detailed empirical study on the effects of haze pollution on pesticide use by rice farmers based on the theory of risk aversion. The empirical results revealed that haze pollution with higher levels of PM2.5 positively impacted the use of chemical pesticides in the rice cultivation. More precisely, with 1% increases in PM2.5 concentration, the amount of pesticide application per mu increased by 7.9%, and the average pesticide fee per mu increased by 2.3%, respectively. The results were robust to a series of tests that addressed potential endogeneity concerns, including omitted variable bias, measurement error and reverse causality. We then examined the heterogeneous effects of haze pollution increase on the use of chemical pesticides and found that the effects of haze pollution on the use of chemical pesticides to be weaker for rice farmer with more rice-planting experience, those with smaller cultivated area of rice, however, the effects on the amount of chemical pesticide application per mu to be weaker for those with rice insurance, but the effects on the average chemical pesticide fee per mu to be stronger for those with rice insurance. Our findings provide important policy implications for pesticide risk management in rural areas of developing countries.

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The Effect of Air Pollution on Body Weight and Obesity: Evidence from China

Cited by 8 publications

References 10 publications

Importing air pollution? Evidence from China's plastic waste imports

Importing air pollution? Evidence from China's plastic waste imports

Does weight impact adolescent mental health? Evidence from China

Effects of haze pollution on pesticide use by rice farmers: fresh evidence from rural areas of China

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