| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w20662 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 20662 |
| Gray Matters: Fetal Pollution Exposure and Human Capital Formation | |
| Prashant Bharadwaj; Matthew Gibson; Joshua Graff Zivin; Christopher A. Neilson | |
| 发表日期 | 2014-11-10 |
| 出版年 | 2014 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This paper examines the impact of fetal exposure to air pollution on 4th grade test scores in Santiago, Chile. We rely on comparisons across siblings which address concerns about locational sorting and all other time-invariant family characteristics that can lead to endogenous exposure to poor environmental quality. We also exploit data on air quality alerts to help address concerns related to short-run time-varying avoidance behavior, which has been shown to be important in a number of other contexts. We find a strong negative effect from fetal exposure to carbon monoxide (CO) on math and language skills measured in 4th grade. These effects are economically significant and our back of the envelope calculations suggest that the 50% reduction in CO in Santiago between 1990 and 2005 increased lifetime earnings by approximately 100 million USD per birth cohort. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Environmental and Resource Economics ; Environment |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w20662 |
| 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/578336 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Prashant Bharadwaj,Matthew Gibson,Joshua Graff Zivin,et al. Gray Matters: Fetal Pollution Exposure and Human Capital Formation. 2014. |
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