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Michelle Marcus’s paper “Testing Above The Limit: Drinking Water Contamination and Test Scores” has been published in the Journal of Public Economics

Posted by on Monday, July 7, 2025 in Uncategorized.

Michelle Marcus has published her research on the effect of drinking water quality violations on student’s academic achievement. Her study finds that poor drinking water quality decreases math scores by about 0.038 standard deviations.

 

You can read the article here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047272725000118