children are manifested beginning in early childhood. In 2010, black asthma rates were double non-black rates. Some but not all … records of all children born in New Jersey between 2006 and 2010, we show that when we split the data by whether or not … children live in a "black" zip code, this racial difference in the incidence of asthma among LBW children entirely disappears …

We estimate the long-run effects of the 1930s Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) redlining maps by linking children in … were least likely to have been chosen by the HOLC based on our statistical model. We find that children living on the lower …