Smoke from massive wildfires blanketed Indonesia in late 1997. This paper examines the impact this air pollution …,600 missing children in Indonesia (1.2% of the affected birth cohorts). Prenatal exposure to pollution largely drives the result … (particulate matter) had on fetal, infant, and child mortality. Exploiting the sharp timing and spatial patterns of the pollution …

reduction in regulation in better funded localities. The findings are directly relevant to Indonesia where corruption is high …Bribes by firms in Indonesia arise principally from regulations --licenses and levies --imposed by local government … latter is capitalized into lower salaries needed by localities to compensate public officials. Localities in Indonesia are …

For political, jurisdictional and technical reasons, environmental regulation of industrial pollution is often … incomplete: regulations apply to only a subset of facilities contributing to a pollution problem. Policymakers are increasingly … regulated producers are less polluting than their unregulated ounterparts, emissions under incomplete regulation can exceed the …

regulation. Guided by restrictive legislative mandates, regulatory policies often strike a quite different balance with an … policy efforts. Inadequate regulatory enforcement and behavioral responses to regulation may limit their effectiveness, while …

designed a randomized experiment involving almost 6,000 households in Indonesia who are subject to a nationally mandated …

more likely to be alive than the poor's mothers. Using panel data set for Indonesia and Vietnam, we also find that older …

and informal sector manufacturing firms in India, Indonesia, and Mexico, we document three facts. First, while there are a … from expanding. Third, we examine regulatory and tax notches in India, Indonesia, and Mexico of the sort often thought to …