2023
DOI: 10.3386/w31957
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Toxified to the Bone: Early-Life and Childhood Exposure to Lead and Men’s Old-Age Mortality

Jason Fletcher,
Hamid Noghanibehambari

Abstract: Several strands of research document the life-cycle impacts of lead exposure during the critical period of children's development. Yet little is known about long-run effects of lead exposure during early-life on old-age mortality outcomes. This study exploits the staggered installation of water systems across 761 cities in the US over the first decades of the 20th century combined with cross-city differences in materials used in water pipelines to identify lead and non-lead cities. An event-study analysis sugg… Show more

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