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Jayachandran, Seema – Journal of Human Resources, 2009
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…
Descriptors: Child Health, Foreign Countries, Pollution, Natural Disasters