You sneeze, you lose:

Bensnes, Simon Søbstad

doi:10.1016/j.jhealeco.2016.05.005

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“…It directly affected decision making by damaging cognitive ability strategic thinking [58]. Evidence showed air pollution exposure would harmfully affect cognitive ability in academic performance [59]. Short-term memory, mathematical reasoning and such cognitive abilities would be harmed by air pollution [53], which was especially the case for the middle-aged and the elderly [53,60].…”

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Do cognitive and non-cognitive abilities mediate the relationship between air pollution exposure and mental health?

Ren

Yang

2019

PLoS ONE

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Considered as a key component of human capital, mental health has drawn substantial scholarly attention for its effect on people’s health status and economic outcome. When facing the challenge of stress, people’s heterogeneity in cognitive ability and non-cognitive ability causes difference in patterns of coping, resulting in different manifestations in mental health. Previous researches have shown that cognitive and non-cognitive abilities have positively direct or indirect effects on mental health, but few studies research their role of coping with air pollution. We used the China Family Panel Survey (CFPS) and matched individual data with county or district level PM2.5 information from NASA. The study found that air pollution has negative effect on mental health with every increase of 1μg/m3 in PM2.5 deteriorating mental health by 0.038 standard deviation, which is the total effect of air pollution. However, the direct effect of air pollution on mental health will decrease to 0.028 in absolute value when considering mediating effects. By employing different approaches, we found positive mediating effects via cognitive ability and non-cognitive ability. Individuals with high cognitive and non-cognitive abilities are able to accurately diagnose problems and select the optimal coping strategies, thus restoring positive mental health.

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Section: Literature and Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Do cognitive and non-cognitive abilities mediate the relationship between air pollution exposure and mental health?

Ren

Yang

2019

PLoS ONE

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“…This study design shares some similarities to a recent Norwegian study that used routine education data linked to environmental data, however, they used pollen only ( 4 ). Our study has several new advances: we included health data to explore the direct and indirect effects of air quality related morbidity on attainment; we have used high spatial resolution data to enable us to separate the effects of home and school air pollution.…”

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“…To our knowledge there are no existing studies investigating the combined effects of air pollution and respiratory health conditions on cognition. Health effects on cognitive behaviour can develop over a lifetime, but educational attainment is one measure of cognition that may have long-lasting effects into higher education choices and labour markets (4). More evidence is needed to quantify the impact of pollution on educational attainment for people from all backgrounds, particularly those who are sensitive to poor air quality.…”

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Creating individual level air pollution exposures in an anonymised data safe haven: a platform for evaluating impact on educational attainment

Mizen

Lyons

Doherty

et al. 2018

IJPDS

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IntroductionThere is a lack of evidence on the adverse effects of air pollution on cognition for people with air quality-related health conditions. We propose that educational attainment, as a proxy for cognition, may increase with improved air quality. This study will explore whether asthma and seasonal allergic rhinitis, when exacerbated by acute exposure to air pollution, is associated with educational attainment.

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“…Fourth, sunshine might be indirectly related to academic performance because seasonal variation in sunshine might be correlated with seasonal heat-induced pollen, influenza, and children accumulating skills throughout the school year (Bensnes, 2016;Bucks et al, 2008;Fitzpatrick, Grissmer, & Hastedt, 2011;Marcotte, 2017;Smith, 1989). I address this potential threat in supplementary analyses in which I control for whether children filled out the time diary during peak flu-season (February) and peak pollen season (April-June).…”

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Reading when the sun does not shine: The effect of reading on children’s academic performance

Blaabæk

2020

Research in Social Stratification and Mobility

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Does reading affect children's academic performance? Drawing on Scholarly Culture Theory, I hypothesize that children's reading outside of school fosters skills that enhance their academic performance. The main inferential challenge is that children who read more are likely to have other characteristics that enhance their skills, thereby complicating causal interpretation. To address this challenge, I use cross-time variation in the amount of sunshine that children are exposed to as a natural experiment that affects whether they read, but that I argue has no direct effect on their academic performance. I hypothesize that sunshine affects whether children read or not more in families with more scholarly culture (books and newspaper in the home) and higher socioeconomic status (SES) because these children have the necessary skills, means and motivations to take up reading when the sun shines less. Empirical results based on analyses of time-diary data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics-Child Development Supplement show that (1) children who were exposed to more sunshine were less likely to read and (2) reading has a positive effect on reading, but not math, test scores.

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You sneeze, you lose:

Cited by 38 publications

References 36 publications

Do cognitive and non-cognitive abilities mediate the relationship between air pollution exposure and mental health?

Do cognitive and non-cognitive abilities mediate the relationship between air pollution exposure and mental health?

Creating individual level air pollution exposures in an anonymised data safe haven: a platform for evaluating impact on educational attainment

Reading when the sun does not shine: The effect of reading on children’s academic performance

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