Agricultural fires.

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

United States Fire Administration

Series:

Topical fire research series ; v. 2, issue 10.

Topical fire research series ; volume 2, issue 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Farms--Fires and fire prevention--United States--Statistics.

Farms.

Farm buildings--Fires and fire prevention--United States--Statistics.

Farm buildings.

Fires--United States--Statistics.

Fires.

Farm buildings--Fires and fire prevention.

Farms--Fires and fire prevention.

United States.

Genre:

Statistics

Statistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([6] pages) : color illustrations.

Place of Publication:

[Emmitsburg, Md.] : U.S. Fire Administration, [2002]

Summary:

Fire has long served as a tool in agriculture, but this practice's human capital consequences have proved difficult to study. Drawing on data from satellites, air monitors, and vital records, we study how smoke from sugarcane harvest fires affects infant health in the Brazilian state that produces one-fifth of the world's sugarcane. Because fires track economic activity, we exploit wind for identification, finding that late-pregnancy exposure to upwind fires decreases birth weight, gestational length, and in utero survival, but not early neonatal survival. Other fires positively predict health, highlighting the importance of disentangling pollution from economic activities that drive it.

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed on July 28, 2010).

"November 2001 (Rev. March 2002)."

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Paper version: Agricultural fires

OCLC:

650541199