PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Adriana Lleras-Muney
TI  - The Needs of the Army
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.45.3.549
DP  - 2010 Jul 01
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 549--590
VI  - 45
IP  - 3
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/45/3/549.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/45/3/549.full
SO  - J Hum Resour2010 Jul 01; 45
AB  - Recent research suggests that pollution has a large impact on asthma and other respiratory and cardiovascular conditions. But this relationship and its implications are not well understood. I use changes in location due to military transfers, which occur entirely to satisfy the needs of the army, to identify the causal impact of pollution on children’s respiratory hospitalizations. I use individual-level data of military families and their dependents, matched at the zip code level with pollution data, for the period 1989–95. I find that for military children only ozone appears to have an adverse effect on health, although not for infants.