We study how ambient lead exposure impacts learning in elementary school by leveraging a natural experiment where a … exposure to lead negatively affect academic performance, shift the entire academic performance distribution, and negatively … impact both younger and older children. The average treated student in our setting has an expected income reduction of $5 …

harm child development and children's long run outcomes. Using the detailed geocoded data that follows national … representative cohorts of children born to the NLSY respondents over time with detailed information on families, locations, health … births where one or more child was exposed to TRI pollution during gestation and other siblings were not exposed because the …

Poor air quality has been shown to harm the health and development of children. Research on these relationships has …-readiness, and the effects of ambient air quality on achievement of young children. I find evidence that exposure in early childhood …

harm child development and children's long run outcomes. Using the detailed geocoded data that follows national … representative cohorts of children born to the NLSY respondents over time with detailed information on families, locations, health … births where one or more child was exposed to TRI pollution during gestation and other siblings were not exposed because the …

Although pollution is widespread, there is little evidence about how it might harm children's long run outcomes. Using … pollution have lower wages, are more likely to be in poverty as adults, have fewer years of completed education, and are less … the detailed, geocoded data that follows national representative cohorts of children born to the National Longitudinal …

This paper examines the impact of fetal exposure to air pollution on low-stakes test performance across a broad age … assistance from their families and attain lower levels of education. …

Very few studies have examined the impacts of both climate change and air pollution on student education outcomes …, and temperature and air pollution data over the past decade for Viet Nam, we find that a 1 µg/m3 increase in PM2 …, respectively. We also find some indicative evidence of stronger impacts of air pollution for younger, primary school students who …

We examine the effect of school traffic pollution on student outcomes by leveraging variation in wind patterns for … schools near highways, where one school has had greater levels of pollution because it is downwind of a highway. Students who …

prematurity. The effects are larger for black or less educated mothers. Children born to disadvantaged mothers demonstrated 1 …