Aashish Gupta|Dean Spears
Health externalities of India's expansion of coal plants: Evidence from a national panel of 40,000 households
University of Pennsylvania
coal power generation expanding rapidly india developing countries addition consequences climate change presentday health externalities may also substantially increase social cost coal health consequences air pollution proven important studies developed countries despite clear importance similarly wellidentified estimates less available developing countries estimates exist important case coal india exploit panel data indian households matched local changes exposure coal plants increased exposure coal plants associated worse respiratory health consistent causal mechanism effect specific effect seen diarrhea fever effect respiratory health seen new noncoal plants result due endogenous avoidance behavior differential trends determinants respiratory health either period studied simultaneously