TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Bacarreza, Gustavo J. Canavire
AU  - Puerta-Cuartas, Alejandro
AU  - Ramos, Andrey
        TI  - On the Effects of Wildfires on Poverty in Bolivia
        PY  - 2024/May/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 16988
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp16988
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - poverty
KW  - counterfactual estimators
KW  - natural disasters
        ER  -