Trejo, Sam; Yeomans-Maldonado, Gloria; Jacob, Brian Aaron - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Lead poisoning has well-known impacts for the developing brain of young children, with a large literature documenting … outcomes of Flint public school children. We leverage parallel causal identification strategies, a between-district synthetic … control analysis and a within-Flint difference-in-differences analysis, to separate out the direct health effects of lead …