Long-run health consequences of air pollution: Evidence from Indonesia's forest fires of 1997

Kim, Younoh; Knowles, Scott O.; Manley, James; Radoias, Vlad

doi:10.1016/j.ehb.2017.03.006

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“…From the related literature, pollution exposure had negative impacts on the short-term and long-run health status [5,52,53]. Air pollution also reduced subjective well-being, caused anxiety and depression, and seriously increased suicide risk among people exposed to air pollution [25,26].…”

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Do cognitive and non-cognitive abilities mediate the relationship between air pollution exposure and mental health?

Ren

Yang

2019

PLoS ONE

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Considered as a key component of human capital, mental health has drawn substantial scholarly attention for its effect on people’s health status and economic outcome. When facing the challenge of stress, people’s heterogeneity in cognitive ability and non-cognitive ability causes difference in patterns of coping, resulting in different manifestations in mental health. Previous researches have shown that cognitive and non-cognitive abilities have positively direct or indirect effects on mental health, but few studies research their role of coping with air pollution. We used the China Family Panel Survey (CFPS) and matched individual data with county or district level PM2.5 information from NASA. The study found that air pollution has negative effect on mental health with every increase of 1μg/m3 in PM2.5 deteriorating mental health by 0.038 standard deviation, which is the total effect of air pollution. However, the direct effect of air pollution on mental health will decrease to 0.028 in absolute value when considering mediating effects. By employing different approaches, we found positive mediating effects via cognitive ability and non-cognitive ability. Individuals with high cognitive and non-cognitive abilities are able to accurately diagnose problems and select the optimal coping strategies, thus restoring positive mental health.

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Section: Literature and Hypothesesmentioning

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Do cognitive and non-cognitive abilities mediate the relationship between air pollution exposure and mental health?

Ren

Yang

2019

PLoS ONE

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“…The negative consequences of forest fires are, indeed, relevant across different areas of human life, inclusively affecting the normal conditions for human health [14]. In some contexts, forest fires are the main agent of disturbances having a more random spatial spreading [15], making it more difficult to predict the consequences.…”

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Socioeconomic Impacts of Forest Fires upon Portugal: An Analysis for the Agricultural and Forestry Sectors

Martinho

2019

Sustainability

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Recent forest fire activity has resulted in several consequences across different geographic locations where both natural and socioeconomic conditions have promoted a favorable context for what has happened in recent years in a number of countries, including Portugal. As a result, it would be interesting to examine the implications of forest fire activity in terms of the socioeconomic dynamics and performance of the agroforestry sectors in the context of those verified in the Portuguese municipalities. For this purpose, data from Statistics on Portugal was considered for output and employment from the business sector related to agricultural and forestry activities, which were disaggregated at the municipality level, for the period 2008-2015. Data for the burnt area was also considered in order to assess the impact of forest fires. The data was analyzed using econometric models in panel data based on the Keynesian (Kaldor laws) and convergence (conditional approaches) theories. The results from the Keynesian approaches show that there are signs of increasing returns to scale in the Portuguese agroforestry sectors, where the burnt area increased employment growth in agricultural activities and decreased employment in the forestry sector. Forest fires seem to create favorable conditions for agricultural employment in Portuguese municipalities and the inverse occurs for forestry employment. Additionally, some signs of convergence were identified between Portuguese municipalities for agroforestry output and employment, as well for the burnt areas. However, signs of divergence (increasing returns to scale) from the Keynesian models seem to be stronger. On the other hand, the evidence of beta convergence for the burnt areas are stronger than those verified for other variables, showing that the impacts from forest fires are more transversal across the whole country (however not enough to have sigma convergence).Sustainability 2019, 11, 374 2 of 14 modelling, for example, brings new approaches for forest fire assessment, namely because it allows us to link several dimensions related with these multidisciplinary realities [2]. Good assessments of the impacts of forest fires are important contributions to the design of adjusted agroforestry policies, specifically in order to direct support to the most negatively affected activities. Policy instruments and related legislation are determinant tools for reducing the negative impacts of forest fires [3].Indeed, in international terms, agroforestry land inside and outside of Europe continues to burn, in some cases with more severity and frequency, namely due to climate change and global warming. On the other hand, governments and related institutions create (and disclose) more regulations than in the past [4]. Maybe, new approaches are needed, where new technologies may play a determinant role. Multidisciplinary approaches could bring interesting contributions, for instance, economic analysis could transmit valuable insights.These undesirable forest fires have always brought neg...

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“…Wave 4 also contains more information on employment, industry, strenuous of work, and job satisfaction . Other studies that have employed the IFLS in analyzing health include those by Witoelar, Strauss, and Sikoki (), Sohn (), Kim (), Kim et al (), and Sohn ().…”

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Earnings Gaps for Conspicuous Characteristics: Evidence from Indonesia

Ahsan¹,

Kelly²

2018

Southern Economic Journal

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Recent research has begun to analyze the effects of height on earnings in Indonesia, a developing country with a large population. Little has been done on the potential effects of weight and general health status on earnings. Using a household production function, Grossman and Benham (1974) provide empirical evidence of the positive effect of good health on earnings. Carefully accounting for selection into the workforce and the potential endogeneity of our health variables, we use a sample of individuals between the ages of 25 and 55 from the Indonesian Family Longitudinal Survey (IFLS) to identify the effect of health on earnings and conduct Oaxaca‐Blinder decompositions to identify possible discrimination. We compare these results to those using less conspicuous health measures such as blood pressure, cholesterol, and chest pain. Endogeneity of our health measures is subsequently addressed using several econometric methodologies. Results suggest that overweight males in Indonesia earn an income premium, while underweight females are subject to an income penalty.

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Long-run health consequences of air pollution: Evidence from Indonesia's forest fires of 1997

Cited by 76 publications

References 45 publications

Do cognitive and non-cognitive abilities mediate the relationship between air pollution exposure and mental health?

Do cognitive and non-cognitive abilities mediate the relationship between air pollution exposure and mental health?

Socioeconomic Impacts of Forest Fires upon Portugal: An Analysis for the Agricultural and Forestry Sectors

Earnings Gaps for Conspicuous Characteristics: Evidence from Indonesia

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