The Needs of the Army: Using Compulsory Relocation in the Military to Estimate the Effect of Air Pollutants on Children's Health

Autor/in	Lleras-Muney, Adriana
Titel	The Needs of the Army: Using Compulsory Relocation in the Military to Estimate the Effect of Air Pollutants on Children's Health
Quelle	In: Journal of Human Resources, 45 (2010) 3, S.549-590 (42 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-166X
Schlagwörter	Pollution; Military Personnel; Child Health; Diseases; Hospitalized Children; Environmental Influences; Correlation; Place of Residence; Weather; Trend Analysis; Young Children + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schadstoffbelastung; Disease; Krankheit; Environmental influence; Umwelteinfluss; Korrelation; Wohnort; Wetter; Trendanalyse; Frühe Kindheit
Abstract	Recent research suggests that pollution has a large impact on asthma and other respiratory and cardiovascular conditions. But this relationship and its implications are not well understood. I use changes in location due to military transfers, which occur entirely to satisfy the needs of the army, to identify the causal impact of pollution on children's respiratory hospitalizations. I use individual-level data of military families and their dependents, matched at the zip code level with pollution data, for the period 1989-95. I find that for military children only ozone appears to have an adverse effect on health, although not for infants. (Contains 5 figures, 7 tables, and 34 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10