Chay, Kenneth Y.; Greenstone, Michael - 2021
instrumental variable for TSPs changes to estimate their impact on infant mortality changes in the first year that the 1970 CAAA … was in force. TSPs nonattainment status is associated with sharp reductions in both TSPs pollution and infant mortality … results in a 0.5 percent decline in the infant mortality rate. Most of these effects are driven by a reduction in deaths …