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The estimate concerns individual scholars’ publications and annual PM2.5 exposure, identified with an instrumental-variable design rather than a raw national count. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: Impacts of PM2.5 air pollution on high-skilled worker productivity in China · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:48132bcfd286b162647431dfc1592a203a335cefc1556f1f33bd31d59981ddb0

Here we examined the causal impact of air pollution on the academic publications of individual scholars in China. Using an instrumental variable design and combining air quality data with a bibliographic dataset of publications, we found that an increase of 1 μg m−3 in the annual concentration of PM2.5 ... causes a decline of 0.23% ... in publications.