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Infrastructure upgrades and lead exposure : do cities face trade-offs when replacing water mains?
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Gazze, Ludovica and Heissel, Jennifer (2021) Infrastructure upgrades and lead exposure : do cities face trade-offs when replacing water mains? Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 108 . 102472. doi:10.1016/j.jeem.2021.102472 ISSN 0095-0696.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2021.102472
Abstract
Concerns about drinking water contamination through lead service lines, which connect street water mains to homes in many cities in the United States, might hinder resource-constrained municipalities from performing important infrastructure upgrades. Construction on water mains might disturb the service lines and increase lead levels in drinking water. We estimate the effects of water main maintenance on drinking water and children's blood levels by exploiting unique geocoded data and over 2200 water main replacements in Chicago, a city with almost 400,000 known lead service lines. By comparing water and blood samples in homes at different distances from replaced mains before and after replacement, we find no evidence that water main replacement affects water or children's lead levels.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Lead poisoning in children, Lead -- Environmental aspects, Lead -- Toxicology, Water-supply engineering, Drinking water -- Health aspects, Drinking water -- Contamination | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Environmental Economics and Management | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Elsevier | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0095-0696 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | July 2021 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 108 | ||||||||
| Article Number: | 102472 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jeem.2021.102472 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 10 May 2021 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 21 November 2022 | ||||||||
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