| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w13347 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 13347 |
| Chernobyl's Subclinical Legacy: Prenatal Exposure to Radioactive Fallout and School Outcomes in Sweden | |
| Douglas Almond; Lena Edlund; Mårten Palme | |
| 发表日期 | 2007-08-24 |
| 出版年 | 2007 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Japanese atomic bomb survivors irradiated 8-25 weeks after ovulation subsequently suffered reduced IQ [Otake and Schull, 1998]. Whether these findings generalize to low doses (less than 10 mGy) has not been established. This paper exploits the natural experiment generated by the Chernobyl nuclear accident in April 1986, which caused a spike in radiation levels in Sweden. In a comprehensive data set of 562,637 Swedes born 1983-1988, we find that the cohort in utero during the Chernobyl accident had worse school outcomes than adjacent birth cohorts, and this deterioration was largest for those exposed approximately 8-25 weeks post conception. Moreover, we find larger damage among students born in regions that received more fallout: students from the eight most affected municipalities were 3.6 percentage points less likely to qualify to high school as a result of the fallout. Our findings suggest that fetal exposure to ionizing radiation damages cognitive ability at radiation levels previously considered safe. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Education ; Environmental and Resource Economics ; Energy ; Environment ; Labor Economics ; Labor Supply and Demand |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w13347 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/571017 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Douglas Almond,Lena Edlund,Mårten Palme. Chernobyl's Subclinical Legacy: Prenatal Exposure to Radioactive Fallout and School Outcomes in Sweden. 2007. |
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| w13347.pdf（1014KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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