The Long-Run Spillover Effects of Pollution: How Exposure to Lead Affects Everyone in the Classroom

Gazzè, Ludovica; Persico, Claudia; Spirovska, Sandra

doi:10.3386/w28782

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“…Health and safety bonds have the second largest impact at 0.15 sd, in line with recent findings on the negative consequences of toxic materials in schools (such as lead or asbestos) on students' cognitive outcomes (Sorensen et al, 2019;Gazze et al, 2021;Ferrie et al, 2012). Bonds that fund renovations of plumbing systems, roofs, furnaces, and STEM equipment also have a sizable test score impact, equal to 0.15 sd.…”

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confidence: 77%

What Works and for Whom? Effectiveness and Efficiency of School Capital Investments Across the U.S

Biasi,

Lafortune,

Schönholzer

2024

SSRN Journal

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Section: Category-specific Impacts Of Bond Authorizationsupporting

confidence: 77%

What Works and for Whom? Effectiveness and Efficiency of School Capital Investments Across the U.S

Biasi,

Lafortune,

Schönholzer

2024

SSRN Journal

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“…Further study would benefit from focusing on the efficacy of rehabilitation activities as well as whether the adverse outcomes persist over the long run. Previous work has also suggested that boys may have a larger response to lead exposure than girls (Khanna (2015), Reyes (2015), Gazze et al (2021)). Disaggregating the information by gender may also provide new and important insights.…”

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confidence: 94%

“…Previous work has also suggested that boys may have a larger response to lead exposure than girls (Khanna (2015), Reyes (2015), Gazze et al. (2021)). Disaggregating the information by gender may also provide new and important insights.…”

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Lead exposure and student outcomes: A study of Flint schools

Sauve‐Syed

2023

Health Economics

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This paper estimates the impacts of cumulative lead exposure on the short‐run discipline and academic achievement of elementary school students. An exogenous, heterogeneous shock of lead‐in‐water levels within classrooms at Flint Community Schools provides the treatment variation used to focus on the understudied, short‐run effects of lead on older children. At the mean level of classroom lead exposure disciplinary actions increased by 8 actions per grade within each school, and the share of students proficient in both math and reading declined. These results may help explain observed disparities in both behavior and academic achievement for underprivileged groups.

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“…Moreover, differences in school contexts are intertwined with the effects of environmental hazards. For example, a recent study showed that higher concentrations of lead‐poisoned children in a school are linked with a greater number of class disruptions, generating negative spillovers for other students (Gazze et al, 2021).…”

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Environmental inequality and disparities in school readiness: The role of neurotoxic lead

Schachner

Wodtke

2023

Child Development

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Developmental science has increasingly scrutinized how environmental hazards influence child outcomes, but few studies examine how contaminants affect disparities in early skill formation. Linking research on environmental inequality and early childhood development, this study assessed whether differences in exposure to neurotoxic lead explain sociodemographic gaps in school readiness. Using panel data tracking a representative sample of 1266 Chicago children (50% female, 16% White, 30% Black, 49% Hispanic, μage = 5.2 months at baseline, collected 1994–2002), analyses quantified the contribution of lead contamination to class and racial disparities in vocabulary skills and attention problems at ages 4 and 5. Results suggested that lead contamination explains 15%–25% and 33%–66% of the disparities in each outcome, respectively, although imprecise estimates preclude drawing firm inferences about attention problems.

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The Long-Run Spillover Effects of Pollution: How Exposure to Lead Affects Everyone in the Classroom

Abstract: The version presented here is a Working Paper (or 'pre-print') that may be later published elsewhere.

Cited by 8 publications

References 38 publications

What Works and for Whom? Effectiveness and Efficiency of School Capital Investments Across the U.S

What Works and for Whom? Effectiveness and Efficiency of School Capital Investments Across the U.S

Lead exposure and student outcomes: A study of Flint schools

Environmental inequality and disparities in school readiness: The role of neurotoxic lead

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