Journal
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT
Volume 70, Issue -, Pages 34-50Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeem.2014.11.002
Keywords
Indoor air pollution; Academic performance; Human capital; School environment; School facilities
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Funding
- National Science Foundation IGERT Program in Indoor Environmental Science and Engineering [0549428]
- Direct For Education and Human Resources
- Division Of Graduate Education [0549428] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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I examine the effect of school indoor air quality (IAQ) on academic outcomes. I utilize a quasi-natural experiment, in which IAQ-renovations were completed at virtually every school in a single Texas school district at different points in time, combined with a panel of student-level data to control for many confounding factors and thereby uncover the causal effect of IAQ-renovations on academic outcomes. Results indicate that performance on standardized tests significantly improves while attendance is unresponsive to improvements in IAQ. Rough calculations suggest that IAQ-renovations may be a more cost-effective way to improve standardized test scores than class size reductions. (c) 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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