The Long-Run Spillover Effects of Pollution: How Exposure to Lead Affects Everyone in the Classroom

We are grateful to the North Carolina Division of Public Health and the North Carolina Education Research Data Center for providing the merged blood lead level data linked to education records data used in this analysis. The opinions expressed herein do not represent the views of the North Carolina Departments of Public Instruction or Health. We are thankful to Manuel Bagues, Marco Bertoni, Eric Chyn, James Fenske, Fanny Landaud, Victor Lavy, Lauren Russell, Viviane Sanfelice, and seminar and conference participants at UChicago Urban Labs, University of Pennsylvania, York University, APPAM, Temple University, University of Warwick, Brown University, Arizona State University, Emory University, OSWEET, WE_ARE, ASSA, AEFP, and MEA for helpful comments and suggestions. We are also grateful to the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Becker Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago, and American University’s School of Public Affairs and Provost for their initial financial support for data construction. All errors are our own. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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