The Effects of Local Industrial Pollution on Students and Schools

“…This makes sense since the average gap between siblings is roughly 3 years. In addition, Persico and Venator (2019) find that there is no differential sorting based on observable characteristics into or out of schools after the openings or closings of TRI sites.…”

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“…9 I employ two different identification strategies that both use a family fixed effects design. First, I compare siblings whose family does not move between 9 A similar result was obtained by Persico and Venator (2019). births where at least one child was prenatally exposed to TRI pollution because the mother lived within 1 mile of an operating TRI site. The comparison group in the regressions is siblings living in the same neighborhood at birth who are conceived at a time when a TRI site is not operating because it had not yet opened or it closed.…”

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confidence: 88%

Can Pollution Cause Poverty? The Effects of Pollution on Educational, Health and Economic Outcomes

Persico

2020

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte.Although industrial plants, known as Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) sites, exist in every major city of the United States releasing billions of pounds of toxic substances annually, there is little evidence about how these pollutants might harm child development and children's long run outcomes. Using the detailed geocoded data that follows national representative cohorts of children born to the NLSY respondents over time with detailed information on families, locations, health, disability and labor market outcomes, I compare siblings who were gestating before versus after a TRI site opened or closed within one mile of their home. In other words, I compare siblings in the same family whose family does not move between births where one or more child was exposed to TRI pollution during gestation and other siblings were not exposed because the plant opened or closed in between the conceptions of different children in the same family. I find that children who were exposed prenatally to TRI pollution have lower wages, are more likely to be in poverty as adults, have fewer years of completed education, are less likely to graduate high school, and are more likely to have a disability. JEL Classification:Q53, I24, I14

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“…In addition to the lead literature, this paper also complements the broader pollution literature on the impacts of vehicle emissions (Auffhammer and Kellogg, 2011;Currie and Walker, 2011;Knittel et al, 2016), the impacts of toxics(Currie et al, 2015b;Persico and Venator, 2018), and the effects of lead remediation(Billings and Schnepel, 2017;Gazze, 2018;Sorensen et al, 2019).…”

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The effect of leaded gasoline on elderly mortality: Evidence from regulatory exemptions

Hollingsworth

Rudik

2019

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Leaded gasoline is still widely used in the United States for aviation and automotive racing. Exploiting regulatory exemptions and a novel quasi-experiment, we find that leaded gasoline increases ambient lead concentrations, elevated blood lead rates, and elderly mortality. The estimated effects indicate the social cost of a gram of lead added to gasoline is over $1,100. Our results are the first causal estimates linking adult mortality to leaded gasoline, highlight the historic value of banning on-road leaded gasoline, demonstrate the costs of continued regulatory exemptions, and provide policy-relevant cost estimates of lead emissions at the lowest ambient levels to date.

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The Effects of Local Industrial Pollution on Students and Schools

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Can Pollution Cause Poverty? The Effects of Pollution on Educational, Health and Economic Outcomes

Can Pollution Cause Poverty? The Effects of Pollution on Educational, Health and Economic Outcomes

Can Pollution Cause Poverty? The Effects of Pollution on Educational, Health and Economic Outcomes

The effect of leaded gasoline on elderly mortality: Evidence from regulatory exemptions

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