Wildfire and Infant Health: A Geospatial Approach to Estimating the Health Impacts of Wildfire Smoke Exposure
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-27-2020
Publication Title
Applied Economics Letters
First page number:
1
Last page number:
6
Abstract
We estimate the effects of wildfire smoke exposure on infant health. Exposure to wildfire smoke is determined using the latitude and longitude coordinates corresponding to each infant’s home address and a fine-scaled spatial dataset of wildfire smoke plumes constructed in GIS from satellite images of the landscape. Using a difference-in-differences estimation strategy, model estimates show that exposure to wildfire smoke leads to a .034 increase in the probability of low birthweight.
Keywords
Wildfire smoke; Infant health; Geographic information systems
Disciplines
Health Economics | Maternal and Child Health
Language
English
Repository Citation
McCoy, S. J.
(2020).
Wildfire and Infant Health: A Geospatial Approach to Estimating the Health Impacts of Wildfire Smoke Exposure.
Applied Economics Letters
1-6.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2020.1730747