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We investigate the effect of pollution on worker productivity in the service sector by focusing on two call centers in … that higher levels of air pollution decrease worker productivity by reducing the number of calls that workers complete each … calls. To our knowledge, this is the first study to demonstrate that the negative impacts of pollution on productivity …
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facilities in Europe jointly with their output, productivity, and other key economic outcomes. To disentangle the influence of … and productivity do not change suggesting that reductions in emissions follow proportional reductions in output rather … than reflecting changes in pollution abatement technology. We find some evidence for positive spillover effects on …
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induced by changes in wind across years, I show that higher levels of pollution lead to decreased agricultural productivity …, with large changes in productivity being common. The negative effects of pollution are larger in areas growing more labor …-intensive crops, indicating that the pollution works at least partly through direct effects on labor productivity. Finally, combining …
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pollution from coal plants has a larger effect on agricultural productivity than other types of pollution. Given that the …I document externalities in the agricultural sector of India due to air pollution. Using variation in pollution induced … by changes in wind, I show that higher levels of particulate matter lead to decreased agricultural productivity, with …
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