@article{MacInnis:20184,
      recid = {20184},
      author = {MacInnis, Bo},
      title = {PESTICIDES AND CHILD HEALTH: EVIDENCE FROM HISPANIC  CHILDREN IN THE U.S.},
      address = {2004},
      number = {377-2016-20871},
      series = {Selected Paper},
      pages = {34},
      year = {2004},
      abstract = {This paper examines whether there is an externality of  parental occupational exposure to pesticides on children's  health, and whether some children are more severely  affected by the externality than others.  Using the  Hispanic Health and Nutrition Examination survey, we find  children of exposed parents are more likely to develop  chronic conditions and less likely to attain good health  than children of unexposed parents, after controlling for a  large set of child and family characteristics.   Furthermore, children from low socioeconomic status are  most vulnerable to health shocks resulting from pesticides  and other related environmental toxins.  Our analysis  suggests that terminating the pathway of parental  occupational exposure would be cost effective to correct  the externality.  Taken together with earlier findings that  poor childhood health is associated with lower adult  earnings, our results suggest more attention to be paid to  the health shocks from environmental toxins for the poor as  a potential mechanism through which the increasing poverty  across generations at the very poor takes place: poverty  makes individuals more susceptible to health shocks at  childhood, which is associated with worse poverty for their  children.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/20184},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.20184},
}