RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The Needs of the Army
JF Journal of Human Resources
JO J Hum Resour
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 549
OP 590
DO 10.3368/jhr.45.3.549
VO 45
IS 3
A1 Lleras-Muney, Adriana
YR 2010
UL http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/45/3/549.abstract
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.