What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Weaker: Prenatal Pollution Exposure and Educational Outcomes

Autor/in	Sanders, Nicholas J.
Titel	What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Weaker: Prenatal Pollution Exposure and Educational Outcomes
Quelle	In: Journal of Human Resources, 47 (2012) 3, S.826-850 (25 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-166X
Schlagwörter	Academic Achievement; Outcomes of Education; Pollution; Manufacturing; Counties; Educational Objectives; Prenatal Influences; Employment; Statistical Analysis; High School Students; Achievement Tests; Scores; Mothers + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schulleistung; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Schadstoffbelastung; Herstellung; Educational objective; Bildungsziel; Erziehungsziel; Pränataler Einfluss; Dienstverhältnis; Statistische Analyse; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Achievement test; Achievement; Testing; Test; Tests; Leistungsbeurteilung; Leistungsüberprüfung; Leistung; Testdurchführung; Testen; Mother; Mutter
Abstract	I examine the impact of prenatal total suspended particulate (TSP) exposure on educational outcomes using county-level variation in the timing and severity of the industrial recession of the early 1980s as a shock to ambient TSPs (similar to Chay and Greenstone 2003b). I then instrument for pollution levels using county-level changes in relative manufacturing employment. A standard deviation decrease in TSPs in a student's year of birth is associated with 2 percent of a standard deviation increase in high school test scores for OLS and 6 percent for IV. I also consider how migration and selection into motherhood relate to my results. (Contains 3 figures, 4 tables, and 20 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10