Caution, Drivers! Children Present: Traffic, Pollution, and Infant Health

We investigate the effects of automobile congestion on ambient air pollution and local infant mortality rates using data from California spanning 2002 to 2007. Constructing instrumental variables (IV) using the relationship of traffic, weather conditions, and pollutants, we show that particulate mat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Miller, Douglas L., Sanders, Nicholas J., Knittel, Christopher Roland
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Published: MIT Press 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113913
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7654-8641