Can Smartphone App Trainings Help Reduce Exposure to Air Pollution? Experimental Evidence from Bogotá.
We conduct a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of training university students in Bogotá to use a smartphone app that displays real-time, location-specific air quality data. The training increased participants' acquisition of information about air quality, their knowledge about avoi...
| Publicado en: | Land Economics Vol. 101; no. 4; pp. 499 - 521 |
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University of Wisconsin Press
Nov2025
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