Dust and Death: Evidence from the West African Harmattan

This paper has benefitted from fruitful discussions with Daniel Benjamin, Paul Fisher, Matthew Turner, and from comments at seminars at the Annual Bank Conference on Africa, Bocconi University, the University of California, San Diego, the University of Cambridge, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the environment and energy economics spring meeting, the University of Essex, Hebrew University, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the University of Luxembourg, Maastricht University, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, the Navarra Centre for International Development, the University of Oxford, the University of Southern Denmark, the University of Sussex, and the University of York. Bharadwaj thanks PERC for providing space and intellectual discussions while writing. Adhvaryu acknowledges funding from the NIH/NICHD (5K01HD071949). The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.