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November 16, 2016 Steve Sexton from Duke University

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Kyle Meng from UC Santa Barbara October 19, 2016

Air Pollution and Criminal Activity: Evidence from Chicago Microdata

Published December 8, 2015 by Evan Hernstadt and Erich Muehlegger. View the abstract.Return to the Papers listing. | Download the paper. A large and growing literature documents the adverse impacts of pollution on health, productivity, educational attainment and socioeconomic outcomes. This paper provides the first quasi-experimental evidence that air pollution casually affects criminal activity. We exploit […]