Severe Air Pollution and Labor Productivity: Evidence from Industrial Towns in China

@article{He2019SevereAP,
  title={Severe Air Pollution and Labor Productivity: Evidence from Industrial Towns in China},
  author={Jiaxiu He and Haoming Liu and Alberto Salvo},
  journal={Employee Social Responsibility \& HR Practices eJournal},
  year={2019}
}
We examine day-to-day fluctuations in worker-level output at two manufacturing sites in China. Ambient fine-particle (PM2.5) pollution is severe but significantly variable, largely due to exogenous atmospheric ventilation. We obtain an insignificant immediate output response from concurrent (same-shift) variation in particle pollution. We then allow worker outcomes to respond to day-to-day variation in pollution with up to 30 days of delay. We uncover statistically significant adverse output… 
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