PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Vyas, Sangita
TI  - The child health impacts of coal
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.0320-10784R2
DP  - 2023 Aug 11
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 0320-10784R2
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2023/08/02/jhr.0320-10784R2.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2023/08/02/jhr.0320-10784R2.full
AB  - What are the health and human capital consequences of the developing world’s coal power expansion? Using variation in coal plant capacity within place across cohorts in India, a large coal consumer, I find that children born exposed to a median-sized coal plant are 0.1 standard deviations shorter than unexposed children. Supporting air pollution as a channel, effects are larger among children living closer to coal plants. Changes in coal capacity do not predict changes in other local socio-economic factors, demographics, employment, or infrastructure. Effects are similar by socioeconomic status, but richer households live closer to coal plants.