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period, the percent at least proficient in mathematics increased by approximately 17
percentage points. Based on our estimated coefficients, this 0.72 percentage point
decrease in the percent of days above the O3 standard was responsible for 0.37% of the
improvement in the percent scoring proficient in mathematics during this time period,
ceteris paribus. Doing this same calculation for English/language arts, we can attribute
1% of the gain in English/language arts scores to the reductions in O3 from 2002 to 2008.
Using either outcome variable, the contribution of the decrease in pollution to the
improvement in the percent at least proficient is small.
In the main specification we estimate pollution at the school from all monitors
during this time period. As a robustness check, we limit the monitors to only those that
are functioning throughout the time period, which eliminates the possibility that the
variation in pollution reflects the introduction of new monitors rather than changes in
pollution. By removing some of the noise in the pollution data caused by the variation in
the monitors used to calculate the averages, the average changes in pollution may be
more accurate. On the other hand, this reduces the number of pollution monitors available
and could therefore produce less accurate measures of pollution for schools where the
new monitors are closer. We present these results in Table 3.5. We only show the
coefficients on the pollution monitors because the coefficients on the control variables are
very similar to those in the previous tables.
Again, the effect of each pollutant is estimated in separate regressions. PM10 and
O3 are negative and significant, which is consistent with Tables 3.3 and 3.4. However,
PM2.5 is now negative in both specifications, but significant in only one of them. The
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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 134 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
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| Full text | 125 period, the percent at least proficient in mathematics increased by approximately 17 percentage points. Based on our estimated coefficients, this 0.72 percentage point decrease in the percent of days above the O3 standard was responsible for 0.37% of the improvement in the percent scoring proficient in mathematics during this time period, ceteris paribus. Doing this same calculation for English/language arts, we can attribute 1% of the gain in English/language arts scores to the reductions in O3 from 2002 to 2008. Using either outcome variable, the contribution of the decrease in pollution to the improvement in the percent at least proficient is small. In the main specification we estimate pollution at the school from all monitors during this time period. As a robustness check, we limit the monitors to only those that are functioning throughout the time period, which eliminates the possibility that the variation in pollution reflects the introduction of new monitors rather than changes in pollution. By removing some of the noise in the pollution data caused by the variation in the monitors used to calculate the averages, the average changes in pollution may be more accurate. On the other hand, this reduces the number of pollution monitors available and could therefore produce less accurate measures of pollution for schools where the new monitors are closer. We present these results in Table 3.5. We only show the coefficients on the pollution monitors because the coefficients on the control variables are very similar to those in the previous tables. Again, the effect of each pollutant is estimated in separate regressions. PM10 and O3 are negative and significant, which is consistent with Tables 3.3 and 3.4. However, PM2.5 is now negative in both specifications, but significant in only one of them. The 125 |
