Grantee Research Project Results
2012 Progress Report: Using Vital Statistics Natality Data to Assess the Impact of Environmental Policy: The Examples of Superfund, the Toxic Release Inventory, and E-ZPass
EPA Grant Number: R834793Title: Using Vital Statistics Natality Data to Assess the Impact of Environmental Policy: The Examples of Superfund, the Toxic Release Inventory, and E-ZPass
Investigators: Currie, Janet
Institution: Princeton University
EPA Project Officer: Hahn, Intaek
Project Period: May 1, 2011 through April 30, 2014
Project Period Covered by this Report: April 1, 2012 through March 31,2013
Project Amount: $492,103
RFA: Exploring Linkages Between Health Outcomes and Environmental Hazards, Exposures, and Interventions for Public Health Tracking and Risk Management (2009) RFA Text | Recipients Lists
Research Category: Human Health
Objective:
This study will investigate the extent to which geocoded Vital Statistics Natality data collected from birth certificates can be used to assess the impact of environmental hazards. These records cover millions of births (in fact all births) over long periods of time. They include information about maternal background and birth outcomes as well as information about the precise residential location of mothers. Moreover, birth records can be linked to infant death records to yield large samples of infant deaths. Given residential addresses, it is possible to link mothers to information about nearby environmental hazards. It is also possible to link births to the same mother, so that the effect of changes in potential exposure can be assessed. The hypothesis to be investigated is that these large and comprehensive data sets can shed useful light on the effects of environmental hazards. This work is being done to benefit the scientific community by demonstrating a way of linking several publicly available data sets to derive a measure of environmental public health impacts.
Progress Summary:
Future Activities:
In the next year, work will begin on the revision and resubmission for the American Economic Review; and the paper about air pollution following 9/11will be completed. Also, the data on oil and gas drilling will be analyzed.
Journal Articles on this Report : 2 Displayed | Download in RIS Format
Other project views: | All 13 publications | 8 publications in selected types | All 8 journal articles |
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Currie J, Graff Zivin JS, Meckel K, Neidell M, Schlenker W. Something in the water: contaminated drinking water and infant health. Canadian Journal of Economics 2013;46(3):791-810. |
R834793 (2012) R834793 (Final) |
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Currie J. Pollution and infant health. Child Development Perspectives 2013;7(4):237-242. |
R834793 (2012) R834793 (Final) |
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Supplemental Keywords:
Birth weight, low birth weight, toxic release inventory, hazardous air pollutants, industrial activity, housing pricesProgress and Final Reports:
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