Les approches quasi expérimentales d’une nouvelle génération d’études pour évaluer les effets des politiques de lutte contre la pollution atmosphérique

摘要

Impact evaluation aims at providing evidence about the potential effectiveness of a public policy that can be applied in the context or air pollution reduction and related health benefits. This article aims at introducing the notion of causal inference and the counterfactual framework in the context of public health policy for outdoor air quality. We introduce the notion of quasi experiment which is rarely used in this context. We thus highlight the use of instrumental variables and regression discontinuity methods in order to encourage further applications of these methods for a new generation of impact evaluation studies in the context of public health policy for outdoor air quality.