What doesn't kill you makes you weaker: Prenatal pollution exposure and educational outcomes

Journal of Human Resources

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 826-850

  Sanders, Nicholas J ^a,b  

^a The College of William and Mary   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; LEARNING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE;

EID: 84863744679     PISSN: 0022166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3368/jhr.47.3.826     Document Type: Article

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