Impact of air pollution on human activities: Evidence from nine million mobile phone users

dc.citation.articleNumbere0251288en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber5en_US
dc.citation.journalTitlePLOS ONEen_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber16en_US
dc.contributor.authorChen, Weien_US
dc.contributor.authorHe, YingHuaen_US
dc.contributor.authorPan, Shiyuanen_US
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-10T17:36:56Zen_US
dc.date.available2021-06-10T17:36:56Zen_US
dc.date.issued2021en_US
dc.description.abstractTo measure the effects of air pollution on human activities, this study applies statistical/econometric modeling to hourly data of 9 million mobile phone users from six cities in China’s Zhejiang Province from December 18 to 21, 2013. Under a change in air quality from “Good” (Air Quality Index, or AQI, between 51 and 100) to “Heavily Polluted” (AQI between 201 to 300), the following effects are demonstrated. (i) Consistent with the literature, for every one million people, 1, 482 fewer individuals are observed at parks, 95% confidence interval or CI (−2, 229, −735), which represents a 15% decrease. (ii) The number of individuals at shopping malls has no statistically significant change. (iii) Home is the most important location under worsening air quality, and for every one million people, 63, 088 more individuals are observed at home, 95% CI (47, 815, 78, 361), which represents a 19% increase. (iv) Individuals are on average 633 meters closer to their home, 95% CI (529, 737); as a benchmark, the median distance from home ranges from 300 to 1900 meters across the cities in our sample. These effects are not due to weather or government regulations. We also provided provisional evidence that individuals engage in inter-temporal activity substitutions within a day, which leads to mitigated (but not nullified) effects of air pollution on daily activities.en_US
dc.identifier.citationChen, Wei, He, YingHua and Pan, Shiyuan. "Impact of air pollution on human activities: Evidence from nine million mobile phone users." <i>PLOS ONE,</i> 16, no. 5 (2021) Public Library of Science: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0251288.en_US
dc.identifier.digitaljournal-pone-0251288en_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0251288en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/110721en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherPublic Library of Scienceen_US
dc.rightsThis is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en_US
dc.titleImpact of air pollution on human activities: Evidence from nine million mobile phone usersen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
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