Seasonal Effects of Water Quality: The Hidden Costs of the Green Revolution to Infant and Child Health in India. Journal of Development Economics, Nov 2013. E Brainerd.
This paper examines the impact of fertilizer agrichemicals in water on infant and child health using water quality data combined with data on child health outcomes from the Demographic and Health Surveys of India. The results indicate that children exposed to higher concentrations of agrichemicals during their first month experience worse health outcomes on a variety of measures; these effects are largest among the most vulnerable groups, particularly the children of uneducated poor women living in rural India.
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