PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Nicholas J. Sanders
TI  - What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Weaker
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.47.3.826
DP  - 2012 Jul 01
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 826--850
VI  - 47
IP  - 3
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/47/3/826.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/47/3/826.full
SO  - J Hum Resour2012 Jul 01; 47
AB  - I examine the impact of prenatal total suspended particulate (TSP) exposure on educational outcomes using county-level variation in the timing and severity of the industrial recession of the early 1980s as a shock to ambient TSPs (similar to Chay and Greenstone 2003b). I then instrument for pollution levels using county-level changes in relative manufacturing employment. A standard deviation decrease in TSPs in a student’s year of birth is associated with 2 percent of a standard deviation increase in high school test scores for OLS and 6 percent for IV. I also consider how migration and selection into motherhood relate to my results.