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Hazed and Confused: The Effect of Air Pollution on Dementia
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2018
unpublished
We find that long-term exposure to fine-particulate air pollution (PM2.5) degrades health and human capital among older adults by increasing their risk of developing Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. We track U.S. Medicare beneficiaries' cumulative residential exposures to PM2.5 and their health from 2004 through 2013, leveraging within-and between-county quasi-random variation in PM2.5 resulting from the expansion of Clean Air Act regulations. We find that a 1 ìg/m3 increase in
doi:10.3386/w24970
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