Household air pollution (HAP), primarily from biomass fuels used for cooking, is associated
with adverse health outcomes and premature mortality. It affects almost half of the world's …

Abstract So-called “slum-dwellers” living in informal settlements in Mexico City Metropolitan
Area (MCMA) often confront poor health outcomes, face chronic accommodation insecurity …

This paper provides quasi-experimental evidence from Ghana on the impact of fossil fuel
subsidy removal on cooking fuel choices. We find that households “stepped down the …

Household air pollution from use of solid fuels such as coal and firewood for cooking is
common in the developing world. Children under five years of age are likely to be …

We estimate the key private benefits from a program to improve ambient air quality during
winter in central Chile by replacing inefficient wood-fired home heating stoves with more …

Using a randomized experimental design, real-time electronic stove surface temperature
measurements and controlled cooking tests, we estimate fuelwood and CO 2 savings from …

Recently, there has been growing research interest in the influence of household air
pollution on child health. Despite the increasing advocacy for households to switch from the …

Background Exposure to household air pollution during pregnancy has been linked to
adverse pregnancy outcomes. Improved stove was implemented in Ethiopia to reduce this …

Burning tropical forests to establish lucrative agricultural crops ignores potentially important
health externalities of the resulting air pollution. These health externalities are often poorly …

Child stunting, closely linked with economic loss in adulthood, is largely irreversible and
mainly occurs in poor countries. We estimate the impact of in utero exposure to high …