Toxic Truth: Lead and Fertility
Using U.S county level data on lead in air for 1978-1988, this paper provides the first causal evidence on the effects of airborne lead exposure on the general fertility rate and the completed fertility rate in the broad population. Instrumental variable estimates show the increase in completed fert...
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| Main Author: |
Severnini, Edson R
Clay, Karen Portnykh, Margarita |
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| Format: | Paper |
| Language: | English |
| Place of publication: |
National Bureau of Economic Research 01.05.2018 |
| Data of publication: | 20180501 |
| Series: |
NBER Working Paper Series |
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| Online Access: |
Fulltext |
| Database: | NBER Working Papers NBER Technical Working Papers Archive NBER National Bureau of Economic Research Publications Database information Databases - DBIS |