Currie, Janet; Greenstone, Michael; Moretti, Enrico - In: American Economic Review 101 (2011) 3, pp. 435-41
We are the first to examine the effect of Superfund cleanups on infant health rather than focusing on proximity to a site. We study singleton births to mothers residing within 5km of a Superfund site between 1989-2003 in five large states. Our "difference in differences" approach compares birth...