The Impact of Cooking with Firewood on Respiratory Health: Evidence from Indonesia
利用印尼家庭调查中直接测量的肺活量数据，发现烧柴做饭的人肺活量比用清洁燃料的人低9.4%，对妇女和儿童影响更大，支持推广清洁燃料的政策。
The vast majority of households in low-income countries cook with firewood, which is known to produce various airborne toxins. We examine whether cooking with firewood results in poorer respiratory health by using a unique Indonesian household survey that collected direct measures of lung capacity. We find that individuals living in households that cook with firewood have 9.4 per cent lower lung capacity than those that cook with cleaner fuels. This impact is larger for women and children than for men. The results strongly support the international policy focus on facilitating households to switch to cooking with cleaner fuels.