Aircraft Noise, Health, and Residential Sorting: Evidence from Two Quasi-Experiments

Stefan Boes, Stephan Nuesch and Steven Stillman

No 6744, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

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.

Keywords: fixed effects; selection bias; noise pollution; health; quasi-experimental data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 I10 Q53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 33 pages
Date: 2012-07
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-exp, nep-hea, nep-tre and nep-ure
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Published - published in: Health Economics, 2013, 22 (9), 1037 - 1051

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Journal Article: AIRCRAFT NOISE, HEALTH, AND RESIDENTIAL SORTING: EVIDENCE FROM TWO QUASI‐EXPERIMENTS (2013)
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