| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w22558 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 22558 |
| Do Low Levels of Blood Lead Reduce Children's Future Test Scores? | |
| Anna Aizer; Janet Currie; Peter Simon; Patrick Vivier | |
| 发表日期 | 2016-08-25 |
| 出版年 | 2016 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We construct a unique individual-level longitudinal dataset linking preschool blood lead levels with third grade test scores for eight birth cohorts of Rhode Island children born between 1997 and 2005. Using these data, we show that reductions of lead from even historically low levels have significant positive effects on children's reading test scores in third grade. Our preferred estimates use the introduction of a lead remediation program as an instrument in order to control for the possibility of confounding and for considerable error in measured lead exposures. The estimates suggest that a one unit decrease in average blood lead levels reduces the probability of being substantially below proficient in reading by 3.1 percentage points (on a baseline of 12 percent). Moreover, as we show, poor and minority children are more likely to be exposed to lead, suggesting that lead poisoning may be one of the causes of continuing gaps in test scores between disadvantaged and other children. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; Environmental and Resource Economics ; Environment |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w22558 |
| 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/580232 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Anna Aizer,Janet Currie,Peter Simon,et al. Do Low Levels of Blood Lead Reduce Children's Future Test Scores?. 2016. |
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