| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w22263 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 22263 |
| Inequality Before Birth: The Developmental Consequences of Environmental Toxicants | |
| Claudia Persico; David Figlio; Jeffrey Roth | |
| 发表日期 | 2016-05-23 |
| 出版年 | 2016 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Millions of tons of hazardous wastes have been produced in the United States in the last 60 years which have been dispersed into the air, into water, and on and under the ground. Using new population-level data that follows cohorts of children born in the state of Florida between 1994 and 2002, this paper examines the short and long-term effects of prenatal exposure to environmental toxicants on children living within two miles of a Superfund site, toxic waste sites identified by the Environmental Protection Agency as being particularly severe. We compare siblings living within two miles from a Superfund site at birth where at least one sibling was conceived before or during cleanup of the site, and the other(s) was conceived after the site cleanup was completed using a family fixed effects model. Children conceived to mothers living within 2 miles of a Superfund site before it was cleaned are 7.4 percentage points more likely to repeat a grade, have 0.06 of a standard deviation lower test scores, and are 6.6 percentage points more likely to be suspended from school than their siblings who were conceived after the site was cleaned. Children conceived to mothers living within one mile of a Superfund site before it was cleaned are 10 percentage points more likely to be diagnosed with a cognitive disability than their later born siblings as well. These results tend to be larger and are more statistically significant than the estimated effects of proximity to a Superfund site on birth outcomes. This study suggests that the cleanup of severe toxic waste sites has significant positive effects on a variety of long-term cognitive and developmental outcomes for children. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education ; Environmental and Resource Economics ; Environment |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w22263 |
| 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/579936 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Claudia Persico,David Figlio,Jeffrey Roth. Inequality Before Birth: The Developmental Consequences of Environmental Toxicants. 2016. |
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| w22263.pdf（555KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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