A Thousand Cuts: Cumulative Lead Exposure Reduces Academic Achievement
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JEL classification:
- I14 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Inequality
- I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
- Q51 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Valuation of Environmental Effects
- Q53 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Air Pollution; Water Pollution; Noise; Hazardous Waste; Solid Waste; Recycling
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EDU-2021-02-08 (Education)
- NEP-URE-2021-02-08 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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