Brüderle, Mirjam Anna; Hodler, Roland - 2017
Oil spills can lead to irreversible environmental degradation and pose hazards to human health. We are the first to … study the causal effects of onshore oil spills on neonatal and infant mortality rates. We use spatial data from the Nigerian … after nearby oil spills. We find that nearby oil spills double the neonatal mortality rate. These effects are fairly uniform …