Down the River: Glyphosate Use in Agriculture and Birth Outcomes of Surrounding Populations

Dias, Mateus; Rocha, Rudi; Soares, Rodrigo R

doi:10.1093/restud/rdad011

Down the River: Glyphosate Use in Agriculture and Birth Outcomes of Surrounding Populations

This paper documents an externality from the agricultural use of the most widely applied herbicide in the world—glyphosate—on birth outcomes of surrounding populations. We focus on the subclinical effects of water contamination in areas distant from the original locations of application. Our iden…