Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/222860 
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Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
DIW Discussion Papers No. 1878
Publisher: 
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin
Abstract: 
I assert that air pollution from nitrogen oxides affects the productivity of employees in Mexican court hearings. This is the first article analyzing this connection and the first to disentangle work-breaks from the productivity of white-collar workers. I merge hourly pollution with granular hearing data under the assumption that the length of the hearing approximates productivity and identify causality from panel and instrumental variable techniques. Results show a loss of 3.83 workdays during the sample period due to the productivity shock stemming from comparing exposure at the hours with the highest and lowest concentration of nitrogen oxides in the data-set.
Subjects: 
air pollution
nitrogen oxides
productivity
labor market effects
JEL: 
C23
J24
Q53
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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