从低排放区到学术轨道：环境政策对小学教育成绩的影响

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Journal of Environmental Economics and Management Pub Date : 2025-05-03 DOI:10.1016/j.jeem.2025.103165

Johannes Brehm , Nico Pestel , Sandra Schaffner , Laura Schmitz

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空气质量的长期改善会影响儿童的教育成果吗？本文调查了低排放区（LEZs）对德国小学生教育成就的影响，该区域限制排放密集型车辆进入指定区域。利用德国人口最多的北莱茵-威斯特伐利亚州的学校层面数据，我们采用差异中的差异方法，利用了自2008年以来错开引入的lez。LEZ的实施将中等教育向学术轨道的转换率提高了大约一个百分点，即2.4%。我们在整个德国使用更多的汇总区级数据来验证这一发现。我们的研究结果表明，减少空气污染对教育有相当大的协同效益。

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From Low Emission Zone to academic track: Environmental policy effects on educational achievement in elementary school

Do long-term improvements in air quality influence children’s educational outcomes? This paper investigates the impact of Low Emission Zones (LEZs), which restrict access to designated areas for emission-intensive vehicles, on the educational achievement of elementary school students in Germany. Using school-level data from North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany’s most populous state, we exploit the staggered introduction of LEZs since 2008 with a difference-in-differences approach. LEZ implementations increase transition rates to the academic track in secondary education by approximately one percentage point, or 2.4 percent. We validate this finding using more aggregated district-level data across all of Germany. Our findings imply sizable educational co-benefits of reductions in air pollution.

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Journal of Environmental Economics and Management Multiple-

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8.00

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4.30%

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Environmental Economics and Management publishes theoretical and empirical papers devoted to specific natural resources and environmental issues. For consideration, papers should (1) contain a substantial element embodying the linkage between economic systems and environmental and natural resources systems or (2) be of substantial importance in understanding the management and/or social control of the economy in its relations with the natural environment. Although the general orientation of the journal is toward economics, interdisciplinary papers by researchers in other fields of interest to resource and environmental economists will be welcomed.