Wildfire and infant health: a geospatial approach to estimating the health impacts of wildfire smoke exposure

Shawn J. Mccoy and Xiaoxi Zhao

Applied Economics Letters, 2021, vol. 28, issue 1, 32-37

Abstract: We estimate the effects of wildfire smoke exposure on infant health. Exposure to wildfire smoke is determined using the latitude and longitude coordinates corresponding to each infant’s home address and a fine-scaled spatial dataset of wildfire smoke plumes constructed in GIS from satellite images of the landscape. Using a difference-in-differences estimation strategy, model estimates show that exposure to wildfire smoke leads to a .034 increase in the probability of low birthweight.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2020.1730747

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