Particulates Matter: The Influence of Cumulative Local Air Pollution Exposure on Sixth-Grade Academic Achievement in California.

IF 2.3 Q2 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
Environmental Health Insights Pub Date : 2024-11-02 eCollection Date: 2024-01-01 DOI:10.1177/11786302241293292
Robert W Wassmer, Michael D Turgeon
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Abstract

We examine the influence of exposure to fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) in ambient air over the previous 6 years on the average standardized test score performance in math, English language arts (ELA), and overall for sixth graders at a sample of California public school districts from 2015 through 2018. Public health research suggests that children exposed to localized air pollution may suffer from cognitive impairment during testing or chronic conditions such as asthma that could influence their academic performance. After controlling for the appropriate confounding variables, our findings indicate that a 1-unit increase (or an equivalent one-third increase in the standard deviation) in the average amount of particulate matter observed over the past 6 years in a school district reduces the average standardized test score by about 4%. In addition, a typical student in a California school district in the two highest quintiles of PM 2.5 exposure (controlling for other causal factors) exhibits standardized test scores closer to the fifth-grade equivalency level than the sixth. These results support the benefits of indoor air pollution mitigation as a likely cost-effective intervention to improve student academic success in primary school.

微粒物质:加利福尼亚州累积的当地空气污染暴露对六年级学习成绩的影响。
我们研究了过去 6 年中暴露于环境空气中的细颗粒物(PM 2.5)对 2015 年至 2018 年加州公立学校学区样本中六年级学生数学、英语语言艺术(ELA)和总体的平均标准化考试成绩的影响。公共卫生研究表明,暴露于局部空气污染中的儿童可能会在测试期间出现认知障碍,或出现哮喘等慢性疾病,从而影响他们的学业成绩。在控制了适当的混杂变量后,我们的研究结果表明,在过去 6 年中,在一个学区观察到的颗粒物平均量每增加 1 个单位(或相当于标准偏差增加三分之一),标准化测试的平均分就会降低约 4%。此外,在加利福尼亚州的一个学区,PM2.5暴露量最高的两个五分位数(控制其他因果因素)的典型学生的标准化考试成绩更接近五年级的同等水平,而不是六年级。这些结果支持了室内空气污染缓解作为一种可能具有成本效益的干预措施对提高小学学生学业成功率的益处。
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Environmental Health Insights
Environmental Health Insights PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH-
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