Air quality and early-life mortality
Subtitle: evidence from indonesia's wildfires
By: Seema Jayachandran.
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 14011; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 14011.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "Smoke from massive wildfires blanketed Indonesia in late 1997.  This paper examines the impact this air pollution (particulate matter) had on fetal, infant, and child mortality.  Exploiting the sharp timing and spatial patterns of the pollution and inferring deaths from "missing children" in the 2000 Indonesian Census, I find that the pollution led to 15,600 missing children in Indonesia (1.2% of the affected birth cohorts).  Prenatal exposure to pollution largely drives the result.  The effect size is much larger in poorer areas, suggesting that differential effects of pollution contribute to the socioeconomic gradient in health"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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