Dear colleagues,
We hereby invite you to join our next Economics
of Inequality Research Seminar at WU Vienna.
Aline Bütikofer (NHH)
will present the paper
Moving to Cleaner Skyes - At What Age Does Childhood Exposure to Pollution Matter for Health And Human Capital?
Date and Time:
Monday, May
19; 3.00 p.m.
Location: WU Vienna,
D3 - D3.0.222.
Abstract
This paper examines the long-term impacts of early childhood pollution exposure by exploiting the sharp decrease in acid rain in Norway after the enactment of the Convention on Long-Range
Transboundary Air Pollution. We combine a difference-in-differences and a movers' design to analyze the outcomes between cohorts born in municipalities before and after a significant decrease in pollution exposure relative to those same cohorts born in municipalities
with little initial exposure. Our findings indicate that higher pollution levels are linked to lower academic performance, with children being most vulnerable to pollution exposure during early childhood.
Please register your participation
here.
Best regards,
Franziska Disslbacher
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Franziska Disslbacher, PhD
Assistant Professor
Institute for Spatial & Social-Ecological Transformations
&
Research Institute Economics of Inequality
WU, Vienna University of Economics and Business
Welthandelsplatz 1, 1020 Vienna, Austria
CenTax Center for the Analysis of Taxation – University Warwick |
LSE International Inequalities Institute – Research Fellow |
Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality CUNY |
SOEP / DIW – Associated Researcher
World Inequality Lab PSE– Research Fellow
+43 1 313 36 6669
franziska.disslbacher@wu.ac.at