On the effects of wildfires on poverty in Bolivia
利用NASA卫星火灾数据和家庭调查数据，研究野火事件对玻利维亚贫困和劳动力市场的短期影响，发现野火导致贫困率上升、家庭人均收入和农业劳动收入暂时下降。
This paper examines the impact of wildfire events on poverty and the labor market in Bolivia. To this end, we match data from NASA’s MODIS Collection-6 MCD64A1 burned area product with household surveys for the period 2005–2020. Similar neighboring municipalities are clustered using the max-p-region algorithm to achieve survey representativeness at granular geographical levels. The causal effects of wildfire events on poverty, household per capita income, and agricultural income are estimated using the Interactive Fixed Effects Counterfactual Estimator. We find a significant short-term increase in poverty following a wildfire event, explained by a temporary decline in household per capita income and agricultural labor income. This paper contributes to enhancing our understanding of how wildfires affect labor markets in developing economies.