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Foetal exposure to air pollution and students’ cognitive performance : evidence from agricultural fires in Brazil
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Carneiro, Juliana, Cole, Matthew A. and Strobl, Eric (2024) Foetal exposure to air pollution and students’ cognitive performance : evidence from agricultural fires in Brazil. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 86 (1). pp. 156-186. doi:10.1111/obes.12579 ISSN 0305-9049.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/obes.12579
Abstract
This paper examines the impact of foetal exposure to air pollution from agricultural fires on Brazilian students' cognitive performance later in life. We rely on comparisons across children who were upwind and downwind of the fires while in utero to address concerns around sorting and temporary income shocks. Our findings show that agricultural fires increase , resulting in significant negative effects on pupils' scores in Portuguese and Maths in the grade through prenatal exposure. Back-of-the-envelope calculations suggest that a 1% reduction in from agricultural burning has the potential to increase later life wages by 2.6%.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine R Medicine > RJ Pediatrics S Agriculture > SD Forestry |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Fire ecology -- Brazil, Farms -- Fires and fire prevention -- Brazil, Environmentally induced diseases in children -- Complications, Fetus -- Development, Fires -- Brazil, Air -- Pollution -- Health aspects -- Brazil, Infants -- Mortality -- Environmental aspects -- Brazil, Human capital -- Environmental aspects -- Brazil, Infants -- Health and hygiene -- Environmental aspects -- Brazil, Medical economics | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics | ||||||||
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0305-9049 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 2024 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 86 | ||||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 156-186 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1111/obes.12579 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Copyright Holders: | © 2023 The Authors. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics published by Oxford University and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 4 October 2023 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 27 October 2023 | ||||||||
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