Three Papers in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
نام عام مواد
[Thesis]
نام نخستين پديدآور
Goodwin, Chris
نام ساير پديدآوران
Deschenes, Olivier
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
UC Santa Barbara
تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره
2015
یادداشتهای مربوط به پایان نامه ها
کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده
UC Santa Barbara
امتياز متن
2015
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
The first chapter concerns the eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington State on May 18th, 1980 which resulted in a massive and unanticipated particulate air pollution shock. I use the incidence of the ash cloud fallout across Washington as a natural experiment to estimate the effect of a particulate shock on birth outcomes and infant mortality. I find that while there is no statistical effect on infant mortality, there were statistically fewer low birth weight babies born. The measured effect indicates about 230 fewer babies were born as a result of exposure while in the womb. These results suggest that about 1 in 10 pregnancies were terminated from the 20th percentile group of the weight distribution, increasing to almost 1 in 5 in the lowest 5th percentile. The effect is found to be the strongest in the early stages of pregnancy. Using these findings I estimate that the cost of a single particulate shock of typical magnitude on a metropolitan area of median size is
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