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Lower test scores from wildfire smoke exposure

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  • Jeff Wen

    (Stanford University)

  • Marshall Burke

    (Stanford University
    Stanford University
    National Bureau of Economic Research)

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Wildfires have increased in frequency and severity over the past two decades, threatening to undo substantial air quality improvements. We investigate the relationship between wildfire smoke exposure and learning outcomes across the United States using standardized test scores from 2009–2016 for nearly 11,700 school districts and satellite-derived estimates of daily smoke exposure. Relative to a school year with no smoke, average cumulative smoke-attributable PM2.5 (surface particulate matter

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  • Jeff Wen & Marshall Burke, 2022. "Lower test scores from wildfire smoke exposure," Nature Sustainability, Nature, vol. 5(11), pages 947-955, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natsus:v:5:y:2022:i:11:d:10.1038_s41893-022-00956-y
    DOI: 10.1038/s41893-022-00956-y
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    1. Merfeld, Joshua D., 2023. "Air Pollution and Agricultural Productivity in a Developing Country," IZA Discussion Papers 16316, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    2. Gellman, Jacob & Walls, Margaret A. & Wibbenmeyer, Matthew, 2023. "Welfare Losses from Wildfire Smoke: Evidence from Daily Outdoor Recreation Data," RFF Working Paper Series 23-31, Resources for the Future.
    3. Xianru Han & Wenying Li & Haoluan Wang, 2024. "A Burning Issue: Wildfire Smoke Exposure, Retail Sales, and Demand for Adaptation in Healthcare," Environmental & Resource Economics, Springer;European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 87(11), pages 3011-3039, November.
    4. Tilman, Andrew R. & Krueger, Elisabeth H. & McManus, Lisa C. & Watson, James R., 2024. "Maintaining human wellbeing as socio-environmental systems undergo regime shifts," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 221(C).
    5. Avila-Uribe, Antonio & Roth, Sefi & Shields, Brian, 2024. "Putting Low Emission Zone (LEZ) to the Test: The Effect of London's LEZ on Education," IZA Discussion Papers 17020, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    6. Fabrizio Bernardi & Risto Conte Keivabu, 2023. "Poor air at school and educational inequalities by family socioeconomic status," MPIDR Working Papers WP-2023-014, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany.

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