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Quantifying factors giving rise to temporal variation in forest fires is important for advancing scientific understanding and improving fire prevention. We demonstrate that eighty percent of the large year-to-year variation in forest area burned in California can be accounted for by variation in...
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-frequency, plausibly exogenous variation in wildfire smoke to estimate the impact of pollution on workplace injuries. Our analysis draws on … workers' compensation injury claims from Texas. We first document that wildfire smoke increases ambient air pollution … that pollution--and wildfire smoke in particular--substantially harms worker health, even at pollution levels well below …
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correlation in wildfire events (within-deal correlation), leads to a lower exposure to wildfire events. These quantifiable metrics … optimal deals by finding the portfolio weights in an asset demand system that targets return and risk. Extrapolating wildfire … risk using a granular wildfire probability model and temperature projections in 2050, we build climate resilient MBSs whose …
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The practice of burning agricultural waste is ubiquitous around the world, yet the external human capital costs from those fires have been underexplored. Using data from the National College Entrance Examination (NCEE) and agricultural fires detected by high-resolution satellites in China during...
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This study measures the degree to which large public expenditures on wildfire protection subsidize development in harm …
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Recent dramatic and deadly increases in global wildfire activity have increased attention on the causes of wildfires … burden of wildfire in the US. We estimate that nearly 50 million homes are currently in the wildland-urban interface in the … climate-change-induced wildfire smoke could approach projected overall increases in temperature-related mortality from climate …
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large wildfire smoke events across the US, a rapidly-growing environmental stressor. Health-protective behavior, mobility …, and sentiment all respond to increasing ambient wildfire smoke concentrations, but responses differ by income. Indoor …
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mandate adaptive investment. We measure the effect of California's wildfire building codes on own- and neighboring structure … 1991 Oakland Firestorm. Codes also benefit neighbors. We use the results to estimate net social benefits of wildfire …
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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...
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Fires and burns are among the leading causes of unintentional death in the U.S. Most of these deaths occur in residences, and cigarettes are a primary cause. In this paper, I explore the relationship between smoking, cigarette policies, and fires. As fewer people smoke, there are less...
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