The Impact of Oil and Gas Extraction on Infant Health

Thank you to Kirk Bol of Colorado Department of Public Health and the Environment for facilitating access to the data. I would like to extend gratitude to David Sahn, John Cawley, Alan Krupnick, Jordan Suter, David Slusky, Jeremy Weber, Chris Timmins, Lucija Muehlenbachs, Alan Krupnick, Lala Ma, and Joanna Upton for helpful comments. Thank you to Tarsha Vasu for helpful research assistance. This work has benefited from presentations at Cornell, PAA Annual Meeting, Oberlin College, AAEA Annual Meeting, ISEE Annual Meeting, University of Pittsburgh, APPAM and CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College. I am grateful to the Cornell Population Center for their generous financial support and to National Institutes of Health for partially funding this work under Grant Number: DP5OD021338 (PI:Hill). The data used in the paper were supplied by the Health Statistics and Evaluation Branch of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, which specifically disclaims responsibility for any analyses, interpretations, or conclusions it has not provided. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research or NIH.

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• November 23, 2022