Year: 2008
Type: report
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: 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.
DOI: 10.3386/w14011
Author: Seema Jayachandran
Institutions: National Bureau of Economic Research, Stanford University
Language: English
Subfield: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2107900987