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Ever wondered how low emission zones affect academic performance?
You are lucky! Our new #OA paper in Population & Environment with amazing @marespadafor.bsky.social and @conteristo.bsky.social within the Mapineq project explores this.
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11111-025-00477-8
Curious? Read on!
Ever wondered how low emission zones affect academic performance?
You are lucky! Our new #OA paper in Population & Environment with amazing @marespadafor.bsky.social and @conteristo.bsky.social within the Mapineq project explores this.
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11111-025-00477-8
Curious? Read on!
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In late 2018, Madrid’s government introduced a Low Emission Zone (LEZ) in the city’s central district.
The policy faced a rocky start, but it successfully reduced NOx levels😶🌫️ in the designated area during its first four years.
But did the policy bring other benefits?
It seems so, at least if we look at the school-average scores at the EvAU, an external assessment for college entry🤓 in Spain standardized at the regional level.
Using a two-way fixed-effects model, we show that EvAU performance in schools within the LEZ improved by 20% of a standard deviation (!!) compared to schools in the rest of the city after the policy’s implementation.
And there’s more!
There were positive spillover effects for schools in a 0.5km radius around the LEZ, and the impact was larger with longer and earlier exposure.
If you wanna know more and see tons of robustness checks, hit the link!