The impact of air pollution on Hospital admissions: evidence from Italy

Raffaele Lagravinese, Lee Habin, Francesco Moscone and Elisa Tosetti

No 170, Departmental Working Papers of Economics - University 'Roma Tre' from Department of Economics - University Roma Tre

Abstract: In this paper we examine the relationship between air pollution and hospital admissions for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Italy, at province level, over the period 2004- 2009. To this end, we use information on annual mean concentrations of carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, particulate matter, and ozone measured at monitoring station level to build province-level indicators. In our model for hospital admissions, we allow pollution measures to be subject to measurement error and possibly correlated with the error term. By adopting an instrumental variables approach, we find that higher levels of particulate matter and carbon monoxide are associated with higher hospitalisation for children, while ozone has an influence on hospital admissions of the elderly. Other factors that appear to have an important role are the rainfall and the level of education.

Keywords: airborne pollutants; hospital admission; instrumental variables. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I12 I18 Q53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-01
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