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The Unintended Impacts of Agricultural Fires: Human Capital in China / Joshua S. Graff Zivin, Tong Liu, Yingquan Song, Qu Tang, Peng Zhang.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Graff Zivin, Joshua S.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w26205.
- NBER working paper series no. w26205
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Unintended Impacts of Agricultural Fires
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2019.
- Summary:
- The practice of burning agricultural waste is ubiquitous around the world, yet the external human capital costs from those fires have been underexplored. Using data from the National College Entrance Examination (NCEE) and agricultural fires detected by high-resolution satellites in China during 2005 to 2011, this paper investigates the impacts of fires on cognitive performance. To address the endogeneity of agricultural fires, we differentiate upwind fires from downwind fires. We find that a one-standard-deviation increase in the difference between upwind and downwind fires during the exam decreases the total exam score by 1.42 percent of a standard deviation (or 0.6 point), and further decreases the probability of getting into first-tier universities by 0.51 percent of a standard deviation.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- August 2019.
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