RT Generic
T1 Cooking that Kills : Cleaner Energy, Indoor Air Pollution, and Health
A1 Imelda, Imelda
A2 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economía, 
A2 , 
AB Cooking with dirty fuel is known to be one of the biggest sources of indoor air pollution in developing countries. I estimate the health impact of indoor air pollution using a nationwide fuel-switching program, the largest household energy transition project ever attempted in the developing world, affecting more than 50 million homes in Indonesia. This program focused on replacing a dirty cooking fuel, kerosene, with cleaner cooking fuel, liquid petroleum gas (LPG). I use a difference-in-differences design with time-varying program intensities to capture the dynamic increase in the households' access to LPG. A 10-percentage-point increase in the program intensity &- measured by the number of free initial LPG packages distributed &- reduces infant mortality rate by 3.3 percentage points, or 1.2 infants per 1,000 live births annually. This study highlights the fact that adopting cleaner energy can have a substantial health impact beyond what is currently known.
SN 2340-5031
YR 2019
FD 2019-01-14
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/27982
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/27982
LA eng
DS e-Archivo
RD 30 jun. 2024