The child health impacts of coal
研究印度燃煤电厂扩张对儿童健康的影响，发现暴露于中位数规模电厂的儿童身高比未暴露儿童矮0.1个标准差，且距离电厂越近影响越大。
<h3>Abstract</h3> 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 socio-economic factors, demographics, employment, or infrastructure. Effects are similar by socioeconomic status, but richer households live closer to coal plants.