Air pollution kills children.
Exposure to dangerous levels of air pollution is estimated to kill over 600,000 children every year worldwide, with fine particulate matter (PM2.5) believed to be the most deadly.
But despite a good body of literature examining pollution-related health outcomes and mortality among adults and the elderly, the extent to which exposure to PM2.5 leads to chronic health conditions among children is not well-understood.
We aim to quantify the impact of PM2.5 on various pediatric medical diagnoses using an instrumental variables regression design.