Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/62520 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 6744
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We explore two unexpected changes in flight regulations to identify the causal effect of aircraft noise on health. Detailed yearly noise metrics are linked with panel data on health outcomes using exact address information. Controlling for individual and spatial heterogeneity, we find that aircraft noise significantly increases sleeping problems, weariness and headaches. Our pooled models substantially underestimate the detrimental health effects, which suggests that individuals self-select into residence based on their unobserved noise sensitivity and idiosyncratic vulnerability. Generally, we show that the combination of fixed effects and quasi-experiments is very powerful to identify causal effects in epidemiological field studies.
Subjects: 
health
noise pollution
selection bias
fixed effects
quasi-experimental data
JEL: 
I10
Q53
C23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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