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Superfund Cleanups and Infant Health / Janet Currie, Michael Greenstone, Enrico Moretti.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Currie, Janet.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w16844.
- NBER working paper series no. w16844
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2011.
- Summary:
- We are the first to examine the effect of Superfund cleanups on infant health rather than focusing on proximity to a site. We study singleton births to mothers residing within 5km of a Superfund site between 1989-2003 in five large states. Our "difference in differences" approach compares birth outcomes before and after a site clean-up for mothers who live within 2,000 meters of the site and those who live between 2,000- 5,000 meters of a site. We find that proximity to a Superfund site before cleanup is associated with a 20 to 25% increase in the risk of congenital anomalies.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- March 2011.
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