Dust pollution from the Sahara and African infant mortality

Sam Heft-Neal, Jennifer Burney, Eran Bendavid, Kara K. Voss and Marshall Burke ()
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Sam Heft-Neal: Stanford University
Jennifer Burney: UC San Diego
Eran Bendavid: Stanford University
Kara K. Voss: UC San Diego
Marshall Burke: Stanford University

Nature Sustainability, 2020, vol. 3, issue 10, 863-871

Abstract: Abstract Estimation of pollution impacts on health is critical for guiding policy to improve health outcomes. Estimation is challenging, however, because economic activity can worsen pollution but also independently improve health outcomes, confounding pollution–health estimates. We leverage variation in exposure to local particulate matter of diameter

Date: 2020
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