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and Health Surveys of India. Because fertilizers are applied at specific times in the growing season, the concentrations … groups - children of uneducated poor women living in rural India. …
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and Health Surveys of India. Because fertilizers are applied at specific times in the growing season, the concentrations … groups – children of uneducated poor women living in rural India. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279248
Pollution is a common byproduct of economic activity. Although policymakers should account for both the benefits and the negative externalities of polluting activities, it is difficult to identify those who are harmed and those who benefit from them. To overcome this challenge, our paper uses a...
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pollution generated by coal fueled power units on the anemic status of children and women in India. We show that among very … increasing demand for energy that emerging market economies like India face. …
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This paper studies child health in India focusing on differences in anthropometric outcomes between the three main … establishing countries were engaged in during India's colonial history. The results are robust to a series of checks for instrument … scientific underpinnings of disease, the advent of Christianity has long-term health implications for India's children today. …
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This paper revisits the relationship between agricultural productivity shocks and the infant sex ratio in India and … India. We then show that a workfare program that decouples both wages and consumption from rainfall attenuates the …
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This paper estimates the effect of coal-fired power plants on infant mortality in India. We find that a one GW increase …
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One of the consequences of rapid economic growth and industrialization in the developing world has been deterioration in environmental conditions and air quality. While air pollution is a serious threat to health in most developing countries, environmental regulations are rare and the...
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One of the consequences of rapid economic growth and industrialization in the developing world has been deterioration in environmental conditions and air quality. While air pollution is a serious threat to health in most developing countries, environmental regulations are rare and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128037
I document negative externalities of air pollution in the Indian agricultural sector. Using variation in pollution induced by changes in wind across years, I show that higher levels of pollution lead to decreased agricultural productivity, with large changes in productivity being common. The...
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