The Needs of the Army: Using Compulsory Relocation in the Military to Estimate the Effect of Air Pollutants on Children's Health

• Autores: Adriana LLeras Muney
• Localización: Journal of human resources, ISSN 0022-166X, Vol. 45, Nº 3, 2010, págs. 549-590
• Idioma: inglés
• Texto completo no disponible (Saber más ...)
• Resumen

  • Abstract:Recent research suggests that pollution has a large impact on asthma and other respiratory and cardiovascular conditions. But this relationship and its implications are not well understood. I use changes in location due to military transfers, which occur entirely to satisfy the needs of the army, to identify the causal impact of pollution on children's respiratory hospitalizations. I use individual-level data of military families and their dependents, matched at the zip code level with pollution data, for the period 1989-95. I find that for military children only ozone appears to have an adverse effect on health, although not for infants.