The Impact of Environmental Conditions on the Productivity of Agricultural Worker

环境条件对农业工人生产力的影响

• 批准号: 8028556
• 负责人: MATTHEW J NEIDELL
• 金额: $ 25.45万
• 依托单位: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-01-15 至 2012-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8028556
• 关键词: Absenteeism; Age; Agricultural Workers; Air; Biological; California; Cardiovascular Diseases; Characteristics; Contracts; Data; Data Set; Electronics; Environmental Impact; Environmental Policy; Exhibits; Exposure to; Farming environment; Gender; Gender Role; Goals; Harvest; Health; High temperature of physical object; Human; Individual; Learning; Link; Lung diseases; Malignant neoplasm of lung; Marketing; Measurement; Measures; Modeling; Morbidity - disease rate; Occupations; Outcome; Output; Ozone; Policies; Pollution; Productivity; Records; Regulation; Research; Seasons; Statistical Models; Structure; Temperature; Time; Translating; Variant; Work; climate change; design; experience; farm worker; interest; novel; response

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): While the effects of pollution on human health have been well established, efforts to understand the full range of impacts have been limited by a paucity of data. This application attempts to fill an important gap in this research by focusing on worker productivity, a succinct summary measure of the impacts of multiple morbidity channels that are typically overlooked in the analyses and design of environmental policy. The primary aim of this application will examine the impacts of environmental conditions on the productivity of agricultural workers. Using a novel longitudinal dataset with detailed information on daily harvest rates of agricultural workers linked to daily ozone and temperature measurements, statistical models that relate temperature and ozone to worker productivity will be estimated. The use of agricultural workers will limit pollution measurement concerns because workers have limited discretion over their exposure, and following workers over time enables opportunities to control for time invariant worker specific characteristics through the use of worker fixed effects. The secondary aim of the application will explore factors that moderate the relationship between environmental conditions and worker productivity, such as worker experience, age, and gender as well as adaptation via prior exposures. By estimating models that interact these factors with environmental conditions, the results from this aim will help to further elucidate some of the channels through which ozone and temperature impact individuals. Given the importance of worker productivity to the economy, even small effects may translate into large losses when aggregated across the economy. As a result, these analyses have important implications for the design of ozone and climate change policy as well as their distributional effects. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The primary goal of environmental regulations is to protect human health, and current regulations require understanding the full range of the health impacts of pollution. By examining the impact of environmental conditions on the productivity of agricultural workers, our project provides a succinct summary measure of the impacts of multiple morbidity channels that are typically overlooked in the analyses and design of environmental policy.

描述（由申请人提供）：虽然污染对人类健康的影响已得到充分证实，但由于数据缺乏，了解其全方位影响的努力受到限制。该应用程序试图通过关注工人生产力来填补本研究中的一个重要空白，这是对多种发病渠道影响的简洁概括衡量标准，而这些渠道在环境政策的分析和设计中通常被忽视。该应用程序的主要目的是检查环境条件对农业工人生产力的影响。使用新颖的纵向数据集，其中包含与每日臭氧和温度测量相关的农业工人每日收获率的详细信息，将估计将温度和臭氧与工人生产力联系起来的统计模型。使用农业工人将限制污染测量问题，因为工人对其暴露的自由裁量权有限，并且随着时间的推移跟踪工人可以通过使用工人固定效应来控制时不变工人的具体特征。该应用程序的第二个目标将探索调节环境条件和工人生产力之间关系的因素，例如工人经验、年龄和性别以及通过先前暴露进行的适应。通过估计这些因素与环境条件相互作用的模型，这一目标的结果将有助于进一步阐明臭氧和温度影响个体的一些渠道。鉴于工人生产力对经济的重要性，即使是很小的影响，当整个经济汇总时也可能转化为巨大的损失。因此，这些分析对于臭氧和气候变化政策的设计及其分配效应具有重要意义。 公共卫生相关性：环境法规的首要目标是保护人类健康，现行法规要求了解污染对健康的全方位影响。通过研究环境条件对农业工人生产力的影响，我们的项目提供了对多种发病渠道影响的简洁汇总衡量标准，而这些渠道在环境政策的分析和设计中通常被忽视。