ArticleJournal of health economics2022
Drinking water, fracking, and infant health.
Article in Journal of health economics, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Oil and Gas Development and Adverse Birth Outcomes: A Qualitative and Quantitative Bias Analysis of the Epidemiologic Literature.Current environmental health reports · 2026Pooled it
- The public health impacts of mining in Australia.The Medical journal of Australia · 2025Pooled it
- Addressing the Impacts of Water Insecurity on Infant Feeding: Policy Solutions for the US.Maternal & child nutrition · 2026Article
- Integrated Chemical and Toxicity Screening of Tap Drinking Water across Western Oregon Using Suspect and Nontarget Screening.Environmental science & technology · 2026Article
- Residential proximity to oil and gas development and risk of gestational diabetes mellitus.International journal of epidemiology · 2026Article
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- A Narrative Review of Spatial-Temporal Data Sources for Estimating Population-Level Exposures to Oil and Gas Development in the United States.Current environmental health reports · 2025Review
- The safety net and child health and well-being: evidence from the United States and the United Kingdom.Fiscal studies · 2025Article
- The Causal Effect of Increasing Area-Level Income on Birth Outcomes and Pregnancy-Related Health: Estimates From the Marcellus Shale Boom Economy.Demography · 2024Article
- Wastewaters Coproduced with Shale Gas Drive Slight Regional Salinization of Groundwater.Environmental science & technology · 2024Article
- The human health effects of unconventional oil and gas development (UOGD): A scoping review of epidemiologic studies.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2024Article
- Drinking Water Contaminant Concentrations and Birth Outcomes.Journal of policy analysis and management : [the journal of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management] · 2024Article
- The Siren Song of Cicadas: Early-Life Pesticide Exposure and Later-Life Male Mortality.Journal of environmental economics and management · 2024Article
- It's electric! An environmental equity perspective on the lifecycle of our energy sources.Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2023Article
- Social Vulnerability and Groundwater Vulnerability to Contamination From Unconventional Hydrocarbon Extraction in the Appalachian Basin.GeoHealth · 2023Article
- Examining the association between safe drinking water act violations and adverse birth outcomes in Virginia.Environmental research · 2023Article
- Assessing Exposure to Unconventional Oil and Gas Development: Strengths, Challenges, and Implications for Epidemiologic Research.Current environmental health reports · 2022Review
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Abstract
This study assesses the health risks associated with drinking water contamination using variation in the timing and location of shale gas development (SGD). Our novel dataset, linking health and drinking water outcomes to shale gas activity through water sources, enables us to provide new estimates of the causal effects of water pollution on health and to isolate drinking water as a specific mechanism of exposure for SGD. We find consistent and robust evidence that drilling shale gas wells negatively impacts both drinking water quality and infant health. These results indicate large social costs of water pollution and provide impetus for re-visiting the regulation of public drinking water.
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