Air Pollution and Infant Mortality: Evidence from the Expansion of Natural Gas Infrastructure | Zendy

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Air Pollution and Infant Mortality: Evidence from the Expansion of Natural Gas Infrastructure

Author(s) -

Cesur Resul,

Tekin Erdal,

Ulker Aydogan

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

the economic journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 4.683

H-Index - 160

eISSN - 1468-0297

pISSN - 0013-0133

DOI - 10.1111/ecoj.12285

Subject(s) - natural gas , infant mortality , mortality rate , natural (archaeology) , pollution , environmental science , natural resource economics , geography , economics , environmental health , demography , medicine , population , engineering , biology , waste management , ecology , archaeology , sociology

We examine the impact of widespread adoption of natural gas as a source of fuel on infant mortality in Turkey, using variation across provinces and over time in the intensity of natural gas utilisation. Our estimates indicate that the expansion of natural gas infrastructure has resulted in a significant decrease in the rate of infant mortality. Specifically, a one‐percentage point increase in natural gas intensity – measured by the rate of subscriptions to natural gas services – would cause the infant mortality rate to decrease by 4%, which would translate into approximately 348 infant lives saved in 2011 alone.

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