APPLIED ECONOMICS AND POLICY Cooking fuel choice and child
mortality in India Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 222, June 2024
ARNAB BASU PROFESSOR
Charles H. Dyson School
of Applied Economics and Management Cornell SC Johnson College of Business Cornell University
Co-authors • Arnab K. Basu
• Nancy H. Chau
LINK TO PAPER LINK TO NANCY CHAU VIDEO
Professor, Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and
Management, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, Cornell University Professor, Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and
Management, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, Cornell University
• Tsenguunjav Byambasuren Ph.D. Candidate, Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, Cornell University
• Neha Khanna, Binghamton University, New York
Summary Indoor air pollution (IAP) is the leading environmental factor behind mortali-
ty in India, accounting for about 40% of the 1.2 million deaths in 2017 (Global Burden of Disease 2017). How serious is IAP a threat to infants and children?
NANCY CHAU PROFESSOR
Charles H. Dyson School
of Applied Economics and Management Cornell SC Johnson College of Business Cornell University
Tis paper estimates the impact of cooking fuel choice – a predominant source of IAP – as a threat to infants and children under-five mortality in In- dia, where reliance on biomass fuels such as firewood, animal dung, and agri- cultural waste is pervasive. Leveraging forest cover and agricultural land own- ership for identification and nationally representative data, they find that solid fuel use for cooking significantly increases the child mortality rate - mainly driven by neonatal mortality in the first 28 days after birth. Te mortality effect is higher for girls than boys and is magnified in relatively small households where there is limited scope for the division of labor between childcare and cooking responsibilities. Among polluting fuels, they find that biomass fuels drive the impact of polluting fuel use on child mortality.
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