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The Child Health Impacts of Coal: Evidence from India’s Coal Expansione

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  • Sangita Vyas

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What are the health and human capital consequences of the developing world’s coal power expansion? Using variation in coal plant capacity within place across cohorts in India, a large coal consumer, I find that children born exposed to a median-sized coal plant are 0.1 standard deviations shorter than unexposed children. Supporting air pollution as a channel, effects are larger among children living closer to coal plants. Changes in coal capacity do not predict changes in other local socioeconomic factors, demographics, employment, or infrastructure. Effects are similar by socioeconomic status, but richer households live closer to coal plants.

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  • Sangita Vyas, 2025. "The Child Health Impacts of Coal: Evidence from India’s Coal Expansione," Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 60(2), pages 496-537.
    • Handle: RePEc:uwp:jhriss:v:60:y:2025:i:2:p:496-537
    Note: DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.0320-10784R2
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    • I15 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Economic Development
    • Q53 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Air Pollution; Water Pollution; Noise; Hazardous Waste; Solid Waste; Recycling
    • Q56 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth

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