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The Impact of Indoor Air Pollution on the Incidence of Life Threatening Respiratory Illnesses: Evidence from Young Children in Peru

Gissele Gajate Garrido
2011 Social Science Research Network  

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IFPRI This paper analyzes the impact of indoor air pollution on boys and girls health, and the validity of various mitigation strategies using a panel of Peruvian children younger than six years old. It controls for unobserved child heterogeneity and important confounding variables established in the literature, but seldom available in surveys. I find a negative, statistically significant and considerable impact of indoor air pollution on child respiratory health. This impact is stronger and
more » ... y significant for boys. To discard a spurious correlation I show diarrhea, a priori not related to pollution, is not affected by cooking fuel choice.
doi:10.2139/ssrn.1879454 fatcat:5cheadbps5hdjjyxzrigtfw6ze
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Gissele Gajate Garrido. "The Impact of Indoor Air Pollution on the Incidence of Life Threatening Respiratory Illnesses: Evidence from Young Children in Peru." Social Science Research Network (2011)