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Lead Exposure and Behavior: Effects on Antisocial and Risky Behavior among Children and Adolescents
Reyes, Jessica Wolpaw - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
It is well known that exposure to lead has numerous adverse effects on behavior and development. Using data on two cohorts of children from the NLSY, this paper investigates the effect of early childhood lead exposure on behavior problems from childhood through early adulthood. I find large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010885304
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The Impact of Piped Water Provision on Infant Mortality in Brazil: A Quantile Panel Data Approach
Gamper-Rabindran, Shanti; Khan, Shakeeb; Timmins, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
IMR distribution, when accompanied by other basic public health inputs, can achieve significantly greater reductions in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248735
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Environmental Policy as Social Policy? The Impact of Childhood Lead Exposure on Crime
Reyes, Jessica Wolpaw - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
Childhood lead exposure can lead to psychological deficits that are strongly associated with aggressive and criminal behavior. In the late 1970s in the United States, lead was removed from gasoline under the Clean Air Act. Using the sharp state-specific reductions in lead exposure resulting from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005710259
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Climate Change, Mortality, and Adaptation: Evidence from Annual Fluctuations in Weather in the US
Deschenes, Olivier; Greenstone, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
This paper produces the first large-scale estimates of the US health related welfare costs due to climate change. Using …, particularly infants. As the canonical Becker-Grossman health production function model highlights, the full welfare impact will be … reflected in health outcomes and increased consumption of goods that preserve individuals' health. Individuals' likely first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005720107
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Water Quality Violations and Avoidance Behavior: Evidence from Bottled Water Consumption
Graff Zivin, Joshua; Schlenker, Wolfram; Neidell, Matthew - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
In this paper, we examine the impact of poor water quality on avoidance behavior by estimating the change in bottled water purchases in response to drinking water violations. Using data from a national grocery chain matched with water quality violations, we find an increase in bottled water...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008788760
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The Welfare Impact of Indirect Pigouvian Taxation: Evidence from Transportation
Knittel, Christopher R.; Sandler, Ryan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
of the positive correlation between emissions and elasticities, the health benefits from a given gasoline tax increase by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951204
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Every Breath You Take - Every Dollar You'll Make: The Long-Term Consequences of the Clean Air Act of 1970
Isen, Adam; Rossin-Slater, Maya; Walker, W. Reed - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This paper examines the long-term impacts of in-utero and early childhood exposure to ambient air pollution on adult labor market outcomes. We take advantage of a new administrative data set that is uniquely suited for addressing this question because it combines information on individuals'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951447
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The SO2 Allowance Trading System and the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990: Reflections on Twenty Years of Policy Innovation
Stavins, Robert Norman; Chan, Gabriel; Stowe, Robert; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
The introduction of the U.S. SO2 allowance-trading program to address the threat of acid rain as part of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 is a landmark event in the history of environmental regulation. The program was a great success by almost all measures. This paper, which draws upon a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652873
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Getting Cars Off the Road: The Cost-Effectiveness of an Episodic Pollution Control Program
Cropper, Maureen L.; Jiang, Yi; Alberini, Anna; Baur, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
Ground-level ozone remains a serious problem in the United States. Because ozone non-attainment is a summer problem, episodic rather than continuous controls of ozone precursors are possible. We evaluate the costs and effectiveness of an episodic scheme that requires people to buy permits to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008601708
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Information Disclosure Policy: Do States' Data Processing Efforts Help More than the Information Disclosure Itself?
Bae, Hyunhoe; Wilcoxen, Peter; Popp, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) was expected to reduce health risks stemming from emissions of hazardous chemicals … little effect on health risks. State-level data processing efforts, in contrast, did lead to significant reductions in health …
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