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Title: Does Pollution Increase School Absences? NBER Working Paper No. 13252
Language: English
Authors: Currie, Janet, Hanushek, Eric, Kahn, E. Megan, Neidell, Matthew, Rivkin, Steven, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA.
Source: National Bureau of Economic Research. 2007.
Availability: National Bureau of Economic Research. 1050 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138-5398. Tel: 617-588-0343; Web site: http://www.nber.org/cgi-bin/get_bars.pl?bar=pub
Peer Reviewed: N
Publication Date: 2007
Contract Number: R305A060067
Document Type: Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Elementary Education
Middle Schools
Descriptors: Pollution, Attendance, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, School Districts, Environmental Standards
Geographic Terms: Texas
Abstract: We examine the effect of air pollution on school absences using unique administrative data for elementary and middle school children in the 39 largest school districts in Texas. These data are merged with information from monitors maintained by the Environmental Protection Agency. To control for potentially confounding factors, we adopt a difference-in-difference-in differences strategy, and control for persistent characteristics of schools, years, and attendance periods in order to focus on variations in pollution within school-year-attendance period cells. We find that high levels of carbon monoxide (CO) significantly increase absences, even when they are below federal air quality standards.
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