Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/299916 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 16988
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper examines the impact of severe wildfire events on Bolivia's poverty and labor market outcomes. We use a panel from 2005 to 2020 utilizing NASA's MODIS Collection-6 MCD64A1 burned area product and household surveys. To attain survey representativeness at a lower geographical level, we aggregate neighboring municipalities using the max-p-region algorithm. Using the Interactive Fixed Effects Counterfactual Estimator, we estimate the causal effects of severe wildfire events on poverty, household per-capita income, and the agricultural sector. We find a significant short-term increase in poverty explained by a temporary decline in household per capita and, specifically, agricultural labor income.
Subjects: 
poverty
counterfactual estimators
natural disasters
JEL: 
I32
Q54
J43
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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