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

Seema Jayachandran

No 14011, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

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.

JEL-codes: I12 O1 Q52 Q53 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-05
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Published as ema Jayachandran, 2009. "Air Quality and Early-Life Mortality: Evidence from Indonesia’s Wildfires," Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 44(4).

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