TY - JOUR
T1 - Air pollution and infant health
T2 - What can we learn from California's recent experience?
AU - Currie, Janet
AU - Neidell, Matthew
N1 - Funding Information:
* We thank Trudy Cameron, Maureen Cropper, Sherry Glied, Michael Green-stone, Paul Rathouz, Jonathan Samet, seminar participants at Boston University, Columbia University, the University of California, Davis, the University of Chicago, the National Bureau of Economic Research Summer Institute, Princeton University, and Yale University, and two anonymous referees for many helpful comments. The authors also thank Ellen Kang for excellent research assistance. Financial support from Princeton’s Center for Health and Well-Being and from the University of Chicago’s Center for Integrating Statistical and Environmental Science is gratefully acknowledged.
PY - 2005/8
Y1 - 2005/8
N2 - We examine the impact of air pollution on infant death in California over the 1990s. Our work offers several innovations: first, most previous studies examine populations subject to far greater levels of pollution. Second, many studies examine a single pollutant in isolation. We examine three "criteria" pollutants in a common framework. Third, we use rich individual-level data and pollution measured at the weekly level. Our most novel finding is a significant effect of CO on infant mortality: we find that reductions in carbon monoxide over the 1990s saved approximately 1000 infant lives in California.
AB - We examine the impact of air pollution on infant death in California over the 1990s. Our work offers several innovations: first, most previous studies examine populations subject to far greater levels of pollution. Second, many studies examine a single pollutant in isolation. We examine three "criteria" pollutants in a common framework. Third, we use rich individual-level data and pollution measured at the weekly level. Our most novel finding is a significant effect of CO on infant mortality: we find that reductions in carbon monoxide over the 1990s saved approximately 1000 infant lives in California.
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U2 - 10.1162/003355305774268219
DO - 10.1162/003355305774268219
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:26444539636
SN - 0033-5533
VL - 120
SP - 1003
EP - 1030
JO - Quarterly Journal of Economics
JF - Quarterly Journal of Economics
IS - 3
ER -