Chay, Kenneth; Greenstone, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003
We examine the effects of total suspended particulates (TSPs) air pollution on infant health using the air quality … 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 …