RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Weaker
JF Journal of Human Resources
JO J Hum Resour
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 826
OP 850
DO 10.3368/jhr.47.3.826
VO 47
IS 3
A1 Nicholas J. Sanders
YR 2012
UL http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/47/3/826.abstract
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.