Air Quality and Early-Life Mortality: Evidence from Indonesia's Wildfires

Autor/in	Jayachandran, Seema
Titel	Air Quality and Early-Life Mortality: Evidence from Indonesia's Wildfires
Quelle	In: Journal of Human Resources, 44 (2009) 4, S.916-954 (39 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-166X
Schlagwörter	Child Health; Foreign Countries; Pollution; Natural Disasters; Mortality Rate; Infant Mortality; Children; Infants; Pregnancy; Death; Effect Size; Poverty; Socioeconomic Influences; Prenatal Influences; Perinatal Influences; Correlation; Premature Infants; Indonesia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Schadstoffbelastung; Natural disaster; Naturkatastrophe; Mortalitätsrate; Kindersterblichkeit; Child; Kind; Kinder; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Schwangerschaft; Sterbefall; Tod; Todesfall; Armut; Sozioökonomischer Faktor; Pränataler Einfluss; Perinatalperiode; Korrelation; Frühgeburt; Indonesien
Abstract	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.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10