Previous studies reported economic losses of $165-319 billion in lost wages from lead exposure
Evidence
Half of US population exposed to adverse lead levels in early childhood (PNAS)
Categorization
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
- XREF: connects to: Lead poisoning costs the US billions of dollars and millions of IQ points yearly — Harriet A. Washington, A Terrible Thing to Waste, 37
Related
- Lead was a widely distributed developmental neurotoxicant with unknown but likely substantial consequences for population-level IQ. (similarity 0.86)
- Lead poisoning costs the US billions of dollars and millions of IQ points yearly (similarity 0.84)
- Changes in childhood lead exposure are responsible for a 56% drop in violent crime in the 1990s, via effects on impulsivity, aggression, and IQ. (similarity 0.84)
- Childhood lead exposure impairs cognition and raises aggression and dropout (similarity 0.82)
- Children absorb lead more readily and face higher exposure risk than adults (similarity 0.81)
- Leaded gasoline exposure cost Americans born before 1996 an estimated 824 million IQ points, averaging 2.6 points per person, much smaller than iodization’s claimed 15-point gap-closing effect. (similarity 0.80)