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ERIC Number: EJ860600
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2009
Pages: 39
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0022-166X
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Air Quality and Early-Life Mortality: Evidence from Indonesia's Wildfires
Jayachandran, Seema
Journal of Human Resources, v44 n4 p916-954 Fall 2009
Smoke from massive wildfires blanketed Indonesia in late 1997. This paper examines the impact that 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 percent of the affected birth cohorts). Prenatal exposure to pollution 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. (Contains 10 tables, 4 figures and 26 footnotes.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Indonesia
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