Caring about the polluted attention: evidence from the inconsistent response existing in web-based survey

Mingying Zhu, Yifan Kang and Juan Liu

Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja, 2023, vol. 36, issue 1, 2045-2070

Abstract: Paying attention is one of the most important brain-based cognitive skills. The detrimental effect of air pollution on brain function has been largely studied by way of experiments in Neuroscience. In this paper, we provide a new way to study the impact of air pollution - in particular PM2.5 - on brain attention through observing the inattentive responding of the participants in online surveys. We construct the inconsistent index and connect it to the individual’s exposure to air pollution. The preferred estimate reveals that a one standard deviation of PM2.5 (around 30 μg/m3) increases the likelihood of inconsistency by 2.25%. Further heterogeneous analysis shows that air pollution appears to have larger effects on those young groups with high education but low income, especially for students, and the number is 5.36%. This study explores the impact of air pollution on brain health from a new perspective, and also provides a mechanism to support the recent study about air pollution and productivity.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1080/1331677X.2022.2094984

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