Investigate whether air pollution affect academic performance of school children in California using fixed effect least squares regression and fixed effect quantile regression. This issue has not be studied previously by economists; the two studies in the epidemiological literature considering it would not be considered as measuring causal effects by economists. Quantile regression allows us to investigate how pollution affects different parts of the achievement distribution, and has not been used previously in this literature.

Published Apr 1, 2014

Avol, J. C. H. J. S. Z. ; E. (2014). Pollution, Test Scores and the Distribution Of Academic Achievement: Evidence From California Schools, 2002-2008. https://www.smu.edu.sg/sites/default/files/economics/shea2014/presentation/pollution_talk_april_2014_ham2.pdf