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Record Nr.

UNINA9910698440303321

Autore

Rangel Marcos A

Titolo

Agricultural Fires and Infant Health / / Marcos A. Rangel, Tom Vogl

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass, : National Bureau of Economic Research, 2016

[Emmitsburg, Md.] : , : U.S. Fire Administration, , [2002]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white);

Collana

NBER working paper series ; no. w22955

Classificazione

H23

I15

O13

Q53

Altri autori (Persone)

VoglTom

Soggetti

Externalities • Redistributive Effects • Environmental Taxes and Subsidies

Health and Economic Development

Agriculture • Natural Resources • Energy • Environment • Other Primary Products

Air Pollution • Water Pollution • Noise • Hazardous Waste • Solid Waste • Recycling

Statistics.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

December 2016.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

Fire has long served as a tool in agriculture, but this practice's human capital consequences have proved difficult to study. Drawing on data from satellites, air monitors, and vital records, we study how smoke from sugarcane harvest fires affects infant health in the Brazilian state that produces one-fifth of the world's sugarcane. Because fires track economic activity, we exploit wind for identification, finding that late-pregnancy exposure to upwind fires decreases birth weight, gestational length, and in utero survival, but not early neonatal survival. Other fires positively predict health, highlighting the importance of disentangling pollution from economic activities that drive it.