Bipartite interference and air pollution transport: estimating health effects of power plant interventions.

ABSTRACT: Evaluating air quality interventions is confronted with the challenge of interference since interventions at a particular pollution source likely impact air quality and health at distant locations, and air quality and health at any given location are likely impacted by interventions at many sources. The structure of interference in this context is dictated by complex atmospheric processes governing how pollution emitted from a particular source is transformed and transported across space and can be cast with a bipartite structure reflecting the two distinct types of units: (i) interventional units on which treatments are applied or withheld to change pollution emissions; and (ii) outcome units on which outcomes of primary interest are measured. We propose new estimands for bipartite causal

SUBMITTER: Zigler C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11823286 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature