Aircraft Noise, Health, and Residential Sorting: Evidence from Two Quasi-Experiments
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Aircraft Noise, Health, and Residential Sorting: Evidence from Two Quasi-Experiments
Aircraft Noise, Health, and Residential Sorting: Evidence from Two Quasi-Experiments
Date Written: October 5, 2012
Abstract
We explore two unexpected changes in flight regulations to estimate the causal effect of aircraft noise on health. Detailed measures of noise are linked with longitudinal data on individual health outcomes based on the exact address information. Controlling for individual and spatial heterogeneity, we find that aircraft noise significantly increases sleeping problems and headaches. Models that do not control for such heterogeneity substantially underestimate the negative health effects, which suggests that individuals self-select into residence based on their unobserved sensitivity to noise. Our study demonstrates that the combination of quasi-experimental variation and panel data is very powerful for identifying causal effects in epidemiological field studies.
Keywords: Health, noise pollution, selection bias, fixed effects, quasi-experimental data
JEL Classification: I10, Q53, C23
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