TY - JOUR
T1 - Air pollution trade-offs in developing countries
T2 - An empirical model of health effects in Goa, India
AU - Das, Sanghamitra
AU - Dayal, Vikram
AU - Murugesan, Anand
AU - Rajarathnam, Uma
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press.
PY - 2022/4/11
Y1 - 2022/4/11
N2 - Developing countries experience both household air pollution resulting from the use of biomass fuels for cooking and industrial air pollution. We conceptualise and estimate simultaneous exposure to both outdoor and household air pollution by adapting the Total Exposure Assessment model from environmental health sciences. To study the relationship between total exposure and health, we collected comprehensive data from a region (Goa) in India that had extensive mining activity. Our data allowed us to apportion individuals' exposure to pollution in micro-environments: indoor, outdoor, kitchen, and at work. We find that higher cumulative exposure to air pollution is positively associated with both self-reported and clinically- diagnosed respiratory health issues. Households in regions with higher economic (mining) activity had higher incomes and had switched to cleaner cooking fuels. In other words, household air pollution due to higher biomass use had been substituted away for outdoor air pollution in regions with economic activity.
AB - Developing countries experience both household air pollution resulting from the use of biomass fuels for cooking and industrial air pollution. We conceptualise and estimate simultaneous exposure to both outdoor and household air pollution by adapting the Total Exposure Assessment model from environmental health sciences. To study the relationship between total exposure and health, we collected comprehensive data from a region (Goa) in India that had extensive mining activity. Our data allowed us to apportion individuals' exposure to pollution in micro-environments: indoor, outdoor, kitchen, and at work. We find that higher cumulative exposure to air pollution is positively associated with both self-reported and clinically- diagnosed respiratory health issues. Households in regions with higher economic (mining) activity had higher incomes and had switched to cleaner cooking fuels. In other words, household air pollution due to higher biomass use had been substituted away for outdoor air pollution in regions with economic activity.
KW - air pollution
KW - fuel choice
KW - health
KW - household air pollution
KW - mining
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U2 - 10.1017/S1355770X21000152
DO - 10.1017/S1355770X21000152
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85107791132
SN - 1355-770X
VL - 27
SP - 145
EP - 166
JO - Environment and Development Economics
JF - Environment and Development Economics
IS - 2
ER -