Congestion Pricing, Air Pollution and Children’s Health

We would like to thank Nicholas Sanders and participants at the 2017 AEA meetings, as well as seminar participants at Karolinska Institute, Uppsala University, the Institute for International Economic Studies, University of Oslo, University of Bergen, University of Umea, and the Stockholm School of Economics. We are grateful to three anonymous referees for helpful comments. We gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Swedish Research Council. Jenny Jans provided invaluable help as a research assistant for this project. The data used in this study are confidential and protected by Swedish privacy laws. They cannot be accessed by anyone not approved under the original data agreement signed by the authors. The data can be purchased from Statistics Sweden, the Swedish National Board for Health and Welfare, and the Swedish Tax registry after the appropriate ethics and privacy board approvals have been secured from these agencies. Dr. Simeonova and Nilsson are willing to assist those interested in purchasing registry data. The authors have no financial conflicts of interest to disclose. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

• March 14, 2018