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Reyes, Jessica Wolpaw |
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Lead Exposure and Behavior: Effects on Antisocial and Risky Behavior among Children and Adolescents Working Paper, Amherst College, February 2012. Also: http://www3.amherst.edu/~jwreyes/papers.html Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY97 Publisher: Amherst College Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Child Health; Environment, Pollution/Urban Density; Environmental Exposure/Environmental Policy; Epidemiology; National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. It is well known that exposure to lead has numerous adverse effects on behavior and development. Using data on two cohorts of children from the NLSY, this paper investigates the effect of early childhood lead exposure on behavior problems from childhood through early adulthood. I find large negative consequences of early childhood lead exposure, in the form of an unfolding series of adverse behavioral outcomes: behavior problems as a child, pregnancy and aggression as a teen, and criminal behavior as a young adult. At the levels of lead that were the norm in United States until the late 1980s, estimated elasticities of these behaviors with respect to lead range between 0.2 and 1.0. |
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Reyes, Jessica Wolpaw. "Lead Exposure and Behavior: Effects on Antisocial and Risky Behavior among Children and Adolescents." Working Paper, Amherst College, February 2012. |