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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w21741 |
来源ID | Working Paper 21741 |
Identifying the Cost of a Public Health Success: Arsenic Well Water Contamination and Productivity in Bangladesh | |
Mark M. Pitt; Mark R. Rosenzweig; Nazmul Hassan | |
发表日期 | 2015-11-23 |
出版年 | 2015 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | We exploit recent molecular genetics evidence on the genetic basis of arsenic excretion and unique information on family links among respondents living in different environments from a large panel survey within a theoretical framework incorporating optimizing behavior to uncover the hidden costs of arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh. We provide for the first time estimates of the effects of the ingestion and retention of inorganic arsenic on direct measures of cognitive and physical capabilities as well as on the schooling attainment, occupational structure, entrepreneurship and incomes of the rural Bangladesh population. We also provide new estimates of the effects of the consumption of foods grown and cooked in arsenic-contaminated water on individual arsenic concentrations. The estimates are based on arsenic biomarkers obtained from a sample of members of rural households in Bangladesh who are participants in a long-term panel survey following respondents and their coresident household members over a period of 26 years. |
主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w21741 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
引用统计 | |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/579416 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Mark M. Pitt,Mark R. Rosenzweig,Nazmul Hassan. Identifying the Cost of a Public Health Success: Arsenic Well Water Contamination and Productivity in Bangladesh. 2015. |
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