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Throwing the Baby Out with the Drinking Water : Unintended Consequences of Arsenic Mitigation Efforts in Bangladesh

Buchmann, Nina - 2019

The 1994 discovery of arsenic in groundwater in Bangladesh prompted a massive public health campaign that led 20% of the population to switch from backyard wells to less convenient drinking water sources that had a higher risk of fecal contamination. We find evidence of unintended health...

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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, … - 2021

We examine the impact of piped water on the under-1 infant mortality rate (IMR) in Brazil using a novel econometric procedure for the estimation of quantile treatment effects with panel data. The provision of piped water in Brazil is highly correlated with other observable and unobservable...

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Water Availability as a Constraint on China's Future Growth

Medianu, Dana - 2012

efficiency units enters the production technology, and investment in water management assets raises efficiency of water use. Our …

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Heterogeneous Yield Impacts from Adoption of Genetically Engineered Corn and the Importance of Controlling for Weather

Lusk, Jayson - 2017

security. While numerous experimental and farm-level studies have found that adoption of genetically engineered crops has been … county-level corn yields from 1980 to 2015 in conjunction with data on adoption of genetically engineered crops, weather, and … genetically engineered crops have increased yields above trend. There is marked heterogeneity in the effect of adoption of …

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Cognitive Disparities, Lead Plumbing, and Water Chemistry : Intelligence Test Scores and Exposure to Water-Borne Lead Among World War Two U.S. Army Enlistees

Ferrie, Joseph P. - 2011

Assessing the impact of lead exposure is difficult if individuals select on the basis of their characteristics into environments with different exposure levels. We address this issue with data from when the dangers of lead exposure were still largely unknown, using new evidence on intelligence...

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Something in the Water : Contaminated Drinking Water and Infant Health

Currie, Janet - 2013

This paper provides estimates of the effects of in utero exposure to contaminated drinking water on fetal health. We examine the universe of birth records and drinking water testing results for the state of New Jersey from 1997 to 2007. Our data enable us to compare outcomes across siblings who...

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Equilibrium Effects of Public Goods : The Impact of Community Water Fluoridation on Dentists

Ho, Kate - 2010

In this paper we consider how the dental industry responded to the addition of fluoride to public drinking water. We take advantage of the staggered introduction of fluoridation throughout the country to analyze the changes in numbers of within-county dentists relative to physicians in the years...

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Shale Gas Development and Property Values : Differences Across Drinking Water Sources

Muehlenbachs, Lucija - 2015

While shale gas development can result in rapid local economic development, negative externalities associated with the process may adversely affect the prices of nearby homes. We utilize a triple-difference estimator and exploit the public water service area boundary in Washington County,...

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Lead in Drinking Water and Birth Outcomes : A Tale of Two Water Treatment Plants

Dave, Dhaval; Yang, Muzhe - 2022

has important policy implications in light of the substantial number of lead water pipes that remain in use as part of our …

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Drinking Water Contaminant Concentrations and Birth Outcomes

Hill, Elaine; DiSalvo, Richard - 2023

Previous research in the US has found negative health effects of contamination when it triggers regulatory violations. An important question is whether levels of contamination that do not trigger a health-based violation impact health. We study the impact of drinking water contamination in...

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