Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/215141 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 12745
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We examine the effect of school traffic pollution on student outcomes by leveraging variation in wind patterns for schools the same distance from major highways. We compare within-student achievement for students transitioning between schools near highways, where one school has had greater levels of pollution because it is downwind of a highway. Students who move from an elementary/middle school that feeds into a "downwind" middle/high school in the same zip code experience decreases in test scores, more behavioral incidents, and more absences, relative to when they transition to an upwind school. Even within zip codes, microclimates can contribute to inequality.
Subjects: 
air pollution
academic achievement
child health
JEL: 
Q53
I24
I14
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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