Does Pollution Drive Achievement? The Effect of Traffic Pollution on Academic Performance

Jennifer A. Heissel, Claudia Persico and David Simon assistant professor of manpower and economics at the Naval Postgraduate School. assistant professor in public administration and policy at American University and a research affiliate at the IZA Institute of Labor Economics (cpersico{at}american.edu). assistant professor of economics at the University of Connecticut and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research.