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 …,600 missing children in Indonesia (1.2% of the affected birth cohorts). Prenatal exposure to pollution largely drives the result …

those living under $1 or $2 dollars a day at PPP) and the non poor have different mortality rates in old age. We construct a … more likely to be alive than the poor's mothers. Using panel data set for Indonesia and Vietnam, we also find that older …

Exposure to extreme events has been hypothesized to affect subsequent mortality because of mortality selection and … tsunami for a population-representative sample of residents of Aceh, Indonesia who were differentially exposed to the disaster … we find evidence for positive mortality selection among older individuals, with stronger effects for males than for …

Understanding how mortality and fertility are linked is essential to the study of population dynamics. We investigate … the fertility response to an unanticipated mortality shock that resulted from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which killed … population-representative multilevel longitudinal data, we identify a behavioral fertility response to mortality exposure, both …

data collected in Aceh, Indonesia, before and after the December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami are used to identify the impact …

in the past two decades, the most recent in 1995-96. We find that mortality rates for the very young and the elderly … increase or decline less rapidly in crisis years as compared with non-crisis years. In late 1995-96 crisis, mortality rates … 0.4 percent increase in mortality for the elderly and a 0.06 percent increase in mortality for the very young. We find …