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"An estimated 20 million children born each year are at risk of brain damage from in utero iodine deficiency, the only micronutrient deficiency known to have significant, non-reversible effects on cognitive development. Cognitive damage from iodine deficiency disorders (IDD) has potentially...
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production within these goods. Using Chinese official environmental data on air and water pollution, and official trade data, we … relatively cleaner, highly fragmented sectors, and (3) the pollution intensity of Chinese exports has fallen dramatically between … standard model of the pollution intensity of trade, we develop a model that explicitly introduces production fragmentation into …
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"Smoke from massive wildfires blanketed Indonesia in late 1997. This paper examines the impact 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 …
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