%0 Report
        %A Bacarreza, Gustavo J. Canavire
%A Puerta-Cuartas, Alejandro
%A Ramos, Andrey
        %T On the Effects of Wildfires on Poverty in Bolivia
        %D 2024
        %8 2024 May
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 16988
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp16988
        %X 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.
        %K poverty
%K counterfactual estimators
%K natural disasters