Almond, Douglas; Edlund, Lena; Palme, Mårten - 2021
natural experiment generated by the Chernobyl nuclear accident in April 1986, which caused a spike in radiation levels in … Sweden. In a comprehensive data set of 562,637 Swedes born 1983-1988, we find that the cohort in utero during the Chernobyl … accident had worse school outcomes than adjacent birth cohorts, and this deterioration was largest for those exposed …