PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Seema Jayachandran
TI  - Air Quality and Early-Life Mortality
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.44.4.916
DP  - 2009 Oct 02
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 916--954
VI  - 44
IP  - 4
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/44/4/916.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/44/4/916.full
SO  - J Hum Resour2009 Oct 02; 44
AB  - 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 pollution led to 15,600 missing children in Indonesia (1.2 percent of the affected birth cohorts). Prenatal exposure to pollution drives the result. The effect size is much larger in poorer areas, suggesting that differential effects of pollution contribute to the socioeconomic gradient in health.