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- The paper investigates how toxic chemical releases affect labor productivity, focusing on the correlation between exposure and work days lost due to illness.
- It utilizes data from the National Health Interview Survey and the EPA's Toxic Release Inventory, employing an instrumental variable approach to address potential biases.
- Findings reveal that higher exposure to toxic releases correlates with a significant increase in work days lost, and this loss increases more sharply as health status declines.
Article Abstract
In this paper we examine the impacts of toxic chemical releases on labor productivity. The hypothesis is that exposure to releases results in chronic or acute illnesses, which increases number of work days lost. To test the hypothesis we combine data from the National Health Interview Survey with data from US Environmental Protection Agency's Toxic Release Inventory, using an instrumental variable approach to control for endogeneity of subjective binary health status. We find that the survey respondents are significantly more likely to have increased work days lost as their exposure to toxic releases increases and that work days lost increase at an increasing rate with diminished health status.
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