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Environment and Development Location: B005 Session Chair: Maxwell Adizor Dzudzor, University of Reading | |
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Crop Burning & Fetal Mortality Rutgers University, United States of America Crop residue burning is a major source of seasonal air pollution across South Asia, yet the role of agricultural cropping systems as a structural driver of this pollution and its consequences for fetal health remain largely unexplored. In India, districts following the rice–wheat double-cropping system face two burning seasons per year, generating substantially more crop residue smoke than monocropping regions. Using a panel of Indian districts and an area-of-effect model that exploits quasi-random variation in seasonal wind patterns, I show that upwind rice–wheat intensity causally increases downwind PM2.5 and fetal mortality. A one standard deviation increase in upwind rice–wheat intensity raises downwind pollution by nearly 1 µg/m3 and increases stillbirth rates by approximately 3 per 10,000 births, a 2% increase relative to the sample mean. I further show that transported pollution is the primary mechanism linking upwind rice–wheat intensity to downwind fetal mortality. | |