Air pollution and infant health: What can we learn from California's recent experience?

Quarterly Journal of Economics

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1003-1030

  Currie, Janet ^a   Neidell, Matthew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

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EID: 26444539636     PISSN: 00335533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/003355305774268219     Document Type: Article

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