Environmental policy as social policy?
Subtitle: the impact of childhood lead exposure on crime
By: Jessica Wolpaw Reyes
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 13097; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 13097.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Description: "Childhood lead exposure can lead to psychological deficits that are strongly associated with aggressive and criminal behavior.  In the late 1970s in the United States, lead was removed from gasoline under the Clean Air Act.  Using the sharp state-specific reductions in lead exposure resulting from this removal, this article finds that the reduction in childhood lead exposure in the late 1970s and early 1980s is responsible for significant declines in violent crime in the 1990s, and may cause further declines into the future.  The elasticity of violent crime with respect to lead is estimated to be approximately 0.8"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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