Air Pollution and Student Performance in the U.S. Working Paper 30061

Autor/inn/en	Gilraine, Michael; Zheng, Angela
Institution	National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Titel	Air Pollution and Student Performance in the U.S. Working Paper 30061
Quelle	(2022) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Pollution; Satellites (Aerospace); Scores; Achievement Tests; School Districts; Correlation; Fuels; Achievement Gap; African American Students; White Students; Energy; Elementary Secondary Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schadstoffbelastung; Satellit; Achievement test; Achievement; Testing; Test; Tests; Leistungsbeurteilung; Leistungsüberprüfung; Leistung; Testdurchführung; Testen; School district; Schulbezirk; Korrelation; Treibstoff; African Americans; Student; Students; Afroamerikaner; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Energie
Abstract	We combine satellite-based pollution data and test scores from over 10,000 U.S. school districts to estimate the relationship between air pollution and test scores. To deal with potential endogeneity we instrument for air quality using: (1) year-to-year coal production variation; and (2) a shift-share instrument that interacts fuel shares used for nearby power production with national growth rates. We find that each one-unit increase in particulate pollution reduces test scores by 0.02 standard deviations. Our findings indicate that declines in particulate pollution exposure raised test scores and reduced the black-white test score gap by 0.06 and 0.01 standard deviations, respectively. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01