Breathless: Schools, Air Toxics, and Environmental Justice in California |
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Authors: | Manuel Pastor Jr Rachel Morello-Frosch James L Sadd |
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Institution: | University of California, Santa Cruz; Department of Community Health, School of Medicine, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island; Occidental College in Los Angeles |
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Abstract: | The exposure of children to environmental disamenities has emerged as a key policy concern in recent years, with some analysts and activists suggesting that minority children are disproportionately impacted. Utilizing a dataset that combines air toxics at the census tract level with school-based demographic and other information, this article indicates disparate exposures for students of color in California schools and suggests that there may be negative impacts on one measure of academic performance, even after controlling for other factors usually associated with test scores. Policy implications include a special focus on school remediation and strengthening overall efforts to reduce emissions "hot spots." |
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Keywords: | environmental justice air toxics academic performance racial disparity fixed effects regression |
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