Brüderle, Mirjam Anna; Hodler, Roland - In: Essays in development economics, (pp. 7-39). 2018
Chapter 1 studies the effects of onshore oil spills on neonatal and infant mortality, and on child health, in Nigeria. It uses geo-referenced data from the Nigerian Oil Spill Monitor and the Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) 2013. Nearby oil spills are found to double the neonatal...