Can Environmental Policy Reduce Infant Mortality?

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dc.creatorDo, Quy-Toan
dc.creatorJoshi, Shareen
dc.creatorStolper, Samuel
dc.date2016-09-12T22:02:16Z
dc.date2016-09-12T22:02:16Z
dc.date2016-08
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-01T00:47:39Z
dc.descriptionIn many developing countries, environmental quality remains low and policies to improve it have been inconsistently effective. This paper conducts a case study of environmental policy, focusing on an unprecedented ruling by the Supreme Court of India, which targeted industrial pollution in the Ganga River. Difference-in-difference estimations indicate that the ruling led to reductions in river pollution and one-month infant mortality. To look at the mechanisms of impact, the paper tests whether the identified health impact is fully explained by changes in pollution induced by the policy, and fails to reject that it indeed is. In so doing, the analysis also quantifies the adverse impact of water pollution on infant health and documents the persistence of such impacts in downstream communities.
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dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/08/26711804/can-environmental-policy-reduce-infant-mortality-evidence-ganga-pollution-cases
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/25044
dc.identifier10.1596/1813-9450-7799
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/411090
dc.languageEnglish
dc.languageen_US
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relationPolicy Research Working Paper;No. 7799
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rightshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.rightsWorld Bank
dc.subjectenvironment
dc.subjectinfant health
dc.subjectpollution
dc.subjectGanga River
dc.subjectinfant mortality
dc.subjectindustrial pollution
dc.titleCan Environmental Policy Reduce Infant Mortality?
dc.titleEvidence from the Ganga Pollution Cases
dc.typeWorking Paper
dc.typeDocument de travail
dc.typeDocumento de trabajo

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