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RESOURCE AND ENERGY ECONOMICS
卷 65, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.reseneeco.2021.101244
关键词
Human capital; India; Crop burning; Forest fires; Remote sensing
资金
- Centre of Excellence for Research on Clean Air (CERCA)
- IIT, Delhi
- Environment for Development (EfD)
This paper examines the impact of biomass burning on adolescent girls' health in India, finding that exposure to extremely high levels of biomass burning during prenatal and postnatal periods is associated with lower height. Girls from North India are particularly vulnerable to the harmful effects of biomass burning exposure.
This paper examines the effect of biomass burning on adolescent health in India. The biomass burning problem is quite acute especially in North India, with some states experiencing forest fires and few states actively engaging in crop burning practice. We combine remote sensing data on biomass burning events with a pan-India survey on teenage girls (TAG survey). We exploit regional and temporal variation in our data to establish the link between occurrence of extremely high levels of biomass burning during early life and adolescent height for girls in India. Our results indicate that exposure to extremely high level of biomass burning during prenatal and postnatal period is associated with lower height (by 0.7 percent or 1.07 cm) later in life. Girls from North India are found to be especially vulnerable to the harmful effects of exposure to biomass burning. (c) 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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