scores for eight birth cohorts of Rhode Island children born between 1997 and 2005. Using these data, we show that reductions … of lead from even historically low levels have significant positive effects on children's reading test scores in third ….1 percentage points (on a baseline of 12 percent). Moreover, as we show, poor and minority children are more likely to be exposed …

those plants, relative to areas slightly farther away. The case provides a salient example of a pollution-haven effect …

,000 children born 1990-2004 in Rhode Island, we estimate the impact of lead on behavior: school suspensions and juvenile detention …

Children exposed to pollutants like lead are more disruptive and have lower achievement. However, little is known about … whether lead-exposed children affect the long-run outcomes of their peers. We estimate these spillover effects using new data … compare siblings whose school-grade cohorts differ in the proportion of children with elevated BLLs, holding constant school …

performance, shift the entire academic performance distribution, and negatively impact both younger and older children. We provide …

Several strands of research document the life-cycle impacts of lead exposure during the critical period of children … event-study analysis suggests that the impacts are more concentrated on children exposed during in-utero up to age 10. The …

We examine the long-term impact of expansions to Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program that … eligibility from birth to age 18 for children in cohorts affected by these expansions, and we observe their longitudinal outcomes … children whose eligibility increased paid more in cumulative taxes by age 28. These children collected less in EITC payments …

correlations exist even for those preschool children who spend no time in day care, which implies that it cannot be due solely to …

outcomes varies across pollution media: air pollution has a larger impact on health outcomes than either water or land. And …, within air pollution, releases of carcinogens are particularly problematic for infant health outcomes. We do not, however …

the importance of disentangling pollution from economic activities that drive it …