TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fowlie,Meredith
AU  - Rubin,Edward A.
AU  - Walker,Reed
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - Bringing Satellite-Based Air Quality Estimates Down to Earth
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - February 2019; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - We use state-of-the-art, satellite-based PM2.5 estimates to assess the extent to which the EPA's existing, monitor-based measurements over- or under-estimate true exposure to PM2.5 pollution. Treating satellite-based estimates as truth implies a substantial number of "policy errors"--over-regulating areas that comply with air quality standards and under-regulating other areas that appear to violate standards. We investigate the health implications of these apparent errors and highlight the importance of accounting for prediction error in satellite-based estimates. Uncertainty in "policy errors" increases substantially when we account for these underlying prediction errors
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w25560
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w25560
ER  -