Montt, Guillermo - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 7 (2018) 7, pp. 1-18
Air pollution affects workers' ability to work by damaging their own health, but also by damaging the health of their … dependents. This paper draws on 20 years of air pollution and employment data from Santiago, Chile, a highly polluted metropolis …, particularly in fall and winter months. The paper finds that though air pollution is not associated to a reduction in overall hours …