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REVIEW OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
Volume 27, Issue 2, Pages 771-796Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/rode.12955
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Amazon; environmental disasters; mental health; oil spills; Peru
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Using a difference-in-difference approach, this study finds a causal link between environmental disasters, specifically exogenous oil spills, and mental health indicators in rural areas of Peru. The results show that oil spills lead to a higher probability of psychological distress.
Using a difference-in-difference approach, we test the causal link between environmental disasters and mental health indicators in rural areas of Peru by exploiting the spatial variation in exogenous oil spills and the differences in their timing for the period 2014 to 2018. We find that, after controlling for time-varying controls and year fixed effects, oil spills lead to a significantly higher probability of suffering psychological distress. We also explore likely mechanisms that explain this causal impact. Finally, we present an event study and apply robustness tests that further support our findings.
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