Does pollution increase school absences?
By: Janet Currie, Eric Hanushek, E. Megan Kahn, Matthew Neidell, Steven Rivkin.
Contributors: Hanushek, Eric A. 1943-; Kahn, Megan  E.; Neidell, Matthew.; Rivkin, Steven.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 13252; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 13252.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "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"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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