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

• Autore: Rangel Marcos A
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass, : National Bureau of Economic Research, 2016; [Emmitsburg, Md.] : , : U.S. Fire Administration, , [2002]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto genere / forma: Statistics.
• Classificazione: H23; I15; O13; Q53
• Altri autori: VoglTom
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Agricultural Fires and Infant Health
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910698440303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) ; no. w22955.