Does Pollution Increase School Absences? NBER Working Paper No. 13252

Autor/inn/en	Currie, Janet; Hanushek, Eric; Kahn, E. Megan; Neidell, Matthew; Rivkin, Steven
Institution	National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA.
Titel	Does Pollution Increase School Absences? NBER Working Paper No. 13252
Quelle	(2007) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
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Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Pollution; Attendance; Elementary School Students; Middle School Students; School Districts; Environmental Standards; Texas + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schadstoffbelastung; Anwesenheit; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; School district; Schulbezirk; Umweltauflage
Abstract	We examine the effect of air pollution on school absences using unique administrative data for elementary and middle school children in the 39 largest school districts in Texas. These data are merged with information from monitors maintained by the Environmental Protection Agency. To control for potentially confounding factors, we adopt a difference-in-difference-in differences strategy, and control for persistent characteristics of schools, years, and attendance periods in order to focus on variations in pollution within school-year-attendance period cells. We find that high levels of carbon monoxide (CO) significantly increase absences, even when they are below federal air quality standards. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10