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of days on which PM10 is above the California standard is negative and significant in
column (4). This indicates that after controlling for school quality, community and
school characteristics, time-invariant grade-school factors, and time-varying
macroeconomic factors, a decrease in the percent of days where PM10 is above the
standard would increase the percent at least proficient in mathematics. A one percent
increase in the days of above the standard for PM10 would increase the percent proficient
by 0.026. If the percent of days above the standard for PM10 increased to 100% from the
mean of 11.71%, then the percent at least proficient would decrease by 2.1 percentage
points. The coefficient in column (4) for fine particulate matter is positive, but not
significant.
Table 3.4 contains the results for the percent proficient in English/language arts,
the second measure of academic performance in this study. Based on columns (3) and
(4), both PM10 and O3 are negative and statistically significant. Increasing the percent of
days above the standard to 100% for PM10 and O3 would decrease the percent at least
proficient in language arts by 1.67 and 16.28, respectively. Taken together, these results
indicate that exceptionally high levels of PM10 and O3 have negative effects on children’s
performance on standardized exams. NO2, PM2.5, and CO are not significant in these
regressions.
To put these results in perspective, we do a back-of-the-envelope calculation of
the benefits of a decrease in pollution to low income neighborhoods. Using the median
of free or reduced-price lunches as the threshold to determine high- and low-income
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Object Description
| Title | Essays on health and well-being |
| Author | Zweig, Jacqueline Smith |
| Author email | smith2@usc.edu; jackiesmith04@yahoo.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Economics |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2011-03-23 |
| Date submitted | 2011 |
| Restricted until | Restricted until 26 Apr. 2012. |
| Date published | 2012-04-26 |
| Advisor (committee chair) |
Easterlin, Richard A. Ham, John C. |
| Advisor (committee member) | Melguizo, Tatiana |
| Abstract | This dissertation is comprised of three chapters that use microeconometric techniques to investigate the factors that affect people’s well-being. In the first two chapters, well-being is defined as life satisfaction or health satisfaction. The first chapter explores how the movement from socialism to capitalism affected the life satisfaction and health satisfaction of East Germans relative to West Germans after reunification. The second chapter examines whether women are happier, less happy, or equally happy as men in countries at various stages of development. The third chapter examines whether pollution affects the academic performance of school children; their academic performance and achievements will have important implications for their future well-being. |
| Keyword | happiness; well-being |
| Geographic subject | Germany |
| Geographic subject (state) | California |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA |
| Coverage date | 1990/2010; 2002/2008 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m3782 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Zweig, Jacqueline Smith |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-Zweig-4500 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume23/etd-Zweig-4500.pdf |
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| Title | Page 131 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
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| Full text | 122 of days on which PM10 is above the California standard is negative and significant in column (4). This indicates that after controlling for school quality, community and school characteristics, time-invariant grade-school factors, and time-varying macroeconomic factors, a decrease in the percent of days where PM10 is above the standard would increase the percent at least proficient in mathematics. A one percent increase in the days of above the standard for PM10 would increase the percent proficient by 0.026. If the percent of days above the standard for PM10 increased to 100% from the mean of 11.71%, then the percent at least proficient would decrease by 2.1 percentage points. The coefficient in column (4) for fine particulate matter is positive, but not significant. Table 3.4 contains the results for the percent proficient in English/language arts, the second measure of academic performance in this study. Based on columns (3) and (4), both PM10 and O3 are negative and statistically significant. Increasing the percent of days above the standard to 100% for PM10 and O3 would decrease the percent at least proficient in language arts by 1.67 and 16.28, respectively. Taken together, these results indicate that exceptionally high levels of PM10 and O3 have negative effects on children’s performance on standardized exams. NO2, PM2.5, and CO are not significant in these regressions. To put these results in perspective, we do a back-of-the-envelope calculation of the benefits of a decrease in pollution to low income neighborhoods. Using the median of free or reduced-price lunches as the threshold to determine high- and low-income 122 |
