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Bringing Satellite-Based Air Quality Estimates Down to Earth / Meredith Fowlie, Edward A. Rubin, Reed Walker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fowlie, Meredith.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w25560.
- NBER working paper series no. w25560
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2019.
- Summary:
- We use state-of-the-art, satellite-based PM2.5 estimates to assess the extent to which the EPA's existing, monitor-based measurements over- or under-estimate true exposure to PM2.5 pollution. Treating satellite-based estimates as truth implies a substantial number of "policy errors"--over-regulating areas that comply with air quality standards and under-regulating other areas that appear to violate standards. We investigate the health implications of these apparent errors and highlight the importance of accounting for prediction error in satellite-based estimates. Uncertainty in "policy errors" increases substantially when we account for these underlying prediction errors.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- February 2019.
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