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SUBMITTER: Klemick H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7055517 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Klemick Heather H Mason Henry H Sullivan Karen K
Journal of environmental economics and management 20200301
This study evaluates the effect of EPA's Superfund cleanup program on children's lead exposure. We linked two decades of blood lead level (BLL) measurements from children in six states with data on Superfund sites and other lead risk factors. We used quasi-experimental methods to identify the causal effect of proximity to Superfund cleanups on rates of elevated BLL. We estimated a difference-in-difference model comparing the change in elevated BLL of children closer to versus farther from lead-c ...[more]