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 …

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 …

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 …

opioid mortality--each prevented opioid death was replaced with a heroin death …

utilize this natural experiment to estimate the effect of coal plant exposure on mortality and house values. Using a …

daily deaths from COVID-19 fixed, what was the impact of vaccines on cumulative mortality from COVID-19 up through June 2023 … behavioral responses to COVID-19 deaths on cumulative mortality from COVID-19 over this same time period? In answering the first … question, I find that vaccines saved 748,600 lives through June 2023. That is, without vaccines, cumulative mortality from …