Local Industrial Shocks and Infant Mortality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9708905 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anja Benshaul-Tolonen (0000-0001-7391-5146, Barnard College and Columbia University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 129 |
| Issue | 620 |
| Pages | 1561-1592 |
| Publication date | 2019-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Economic Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0133 • E-ISSN: 1468-0297 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/ecoj.12625 |
| OpenAlex | W2807337885 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 42 |
| References cited | 36 |
Local industrial development has the potential to improve health and well-being, while also damaging health through exposure to harmful pollution. It is an empirical question which of these effects dominate. Exploiting the quasi-experimental expansion of African large-scale gold mining, I find that local infant mortality rates decrease by more than 50% alongside rapid economic growth. The instantaneous reduction is comparable to overall gains in infant survival rates in the study countries from 1970 to today. The results are robust to migration. Local industrial development – despite risk of pollution – may be an effective tool to reduce infant mortality in developing countries
Developing country · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental health · Geography · Infant mortality · Scale (ratio · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Energy and Environment Impacts · Medicine · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
Wage Employment in Africa
High-Yielding Variety Policies in Africa
The Trade Imperative
Technical Change and Agricultural Productivity
Uneven, Contradictory, and Brutal Economic Development in Africa
Varieties of Common Sense
Unbalanced Development
Investment, Wage Goods, and Industrial Policy
Working Out the Solution to Rural Poverty
Miners and minors
How do mining booms impact the labor market for men and women? Evidence from Indonesia
Trade and value chain participation
Estimating the impact of large-scale mining on local communities in sub-Saharan Africa
Natural disasters and human capital accumulation
Gold Mining and Education
Estimating the mortality burden of large scale mining projects—Evidence from a prospective mortality surveillance study in Tanzania
Assessing the effects of mining projects on child health in sub-Saharan Africa
Understanding environmental, health and economic activity interactions following transition of ownership in gold mining areas in Tanzania
A natural resource curse
Spatial mobility and large-scale resource extraction
The local socioeconomic effects of gold mining
Extracting Inequality
Large-scale land investment, disease prevalence and infant mortality in Cambodia
Industrial versus artisanal mining
Connecting family, school, gold mining community and primary school students’ reading achievements in Burkina Faso – A three-level hierarchical linear model analysis
The impact of large-scale land acquisitions on child food insecurity in Africa
Roads, women’s employment, and gender equity
The effects of mining on local poverty in developing countries
Mining and women’s agency
Mining and quality of public services
A two-wave death story
Land grabs and labor in Cambodia
The gold digger and the machine. Evidence on the distributive effect of the artisanal and industrial gold rushes in Burkina Faso
Mines
Mineral Resources and the Salience of Ethnic Identities
The regional economics of mineral resource wealth in Africa
Artisanal mining in Africa. Green for Gold
Dutch disease and the resource curse
African Economic Development
Saving Lives Through Technology
Racial/ethnic disparities in PM2.5-attributable cardiovascular mortality burden in the United States
Industrial Gold Mining and Female Empowerment
Envirodevonomics
Environmental Regulations, Air and Water Pollution, and Infant Mortality in India
Has Democratization Reduced Infant Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa? Evidence From Micro Data
Chernobyl's Subclinical Legacy
Local Multipliers
Exploring Universal Patterns in Human Home-Work Commuting from Mobile Phone Data
Natural Resources and Local Communities
The Impact of Air Pollution on Infant Mortality
Evidence-based interventions for improvement of maternal and child nutrition
Where and why are 10 million children dying every year?
Do Conditional Cash Transfers Improve Child Health? Evidence from PROGRESA′s Control Randomized Experiment
Environmental Health Risks and Housing Values
Health Behavior in Developing Countries
Global, regional, and national levels of neonatal, infant, and under-5 mortality during 1990–2013
Women Empowerment and Economic Development
Maternal and child undernutrition and overweight in low-income and middle-income countries
Aggregate Income Shocks and Infant Mortality in the Developing World
Do environmental regulations affect the location decisions of multinational gold mining firms
Mode of transport to work by government employees in the Kumasi metropolis, Ghana
African Mining, Gender, and Local Employment
Consumption Smoothing, Migration, and Marriage
Polluting Industries and Agricultural Productivity
| Unique citing works | 42 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,25 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 42 |