全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Traffic Congestion and Infant Health: Evidence from E-ZPass

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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w15413
来源ID	Working Paper 15413
	Traffic Congestion and Infant Health: Evidence from E-ZPass
	Janet Currie; W. Reed Walker
发表日期	2009-10-08
出版年	2009
语种	英语
摘要	We exploit the introduction of electronic toll collection, (E-ZPass), which greatly reduced both traffic congestion and vehicle emissions near highway toll plazas. We show that the introduction of E-ZPass reduced prematurity and low birth weight among mothers within 2km of a toll plaza by 10.8% and 11.8% respectively relative to mothers 2-10km from a toll plaza. There were no immediate changes in the characteristics of mothers or in housing prices near toll plazas that could explain these changes. The results are robust to many changes in specification and suggest that traffic congestion contributes significantly to poor health among infants.
主题	Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Environmental and Resource Economics ; Environment
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w15413
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/573089
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Janet Currie,W. Reed Walker. Traffic Congestion and Infant Health: Evidence from E-ZPass. 2009.