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This paper examines the impact of fetal exposure to air pollution on low-stakes test performance across a broad age range, with a focus on gender-specific parental responses to this negative shock. Using data from a nationally representative survey in China, we find that fetal PM2.5 exposure...
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non-cognitive skills with a novel measure of lead exposure, we follow 800,000 children from birth into adulthood. We find …
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This paper empirically discriminates between alternative household decision-making models for estimating parents …’ willingness to pay for health risk reductions for their children as well as for themselves. Models are tested using data … pertaining to heart disease from a stated preference survey involving 432 matched pairs of parents married to one another …
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impact both younger and older children. The average treated student in our setting has an expected income reduction of $5 …-fourth of a standard deviation, reducing class size by 5 students, or increasing school spending per pupil by $750. The marginal … impacts of lead are larger in impoverished, non-white counties, and among students with greater duration of exposure, even …
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