| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中央大學 === 產業經濟研究所 === 96 === The development of economy in Taiwan, which makes light and heavy industry flourish,however, has become a serious
negative impact on environmental and air quality. Many of
researches have confirmed that air pollution causes damages to human body but only a few studies shows the conjunction between air pollution and infant mortality. Therefore, the object of this study is to discuss infants in postneonatal period in Taiwan and to find the relationship between postneonatal infant mortality, particulate matter <10μm (PM10), sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2), and it also estimates the effects of air pollution on risk of respiratory deaths in the postneonatal period. The analysis of sample is linking monitoring data for PM10, SO2 and NO2 together to infants born in Taiwan between 1995 and 2003, and is using different econometric models which include fixed effect of Tobit model,the analysis of event is the 2001 recession in Taiwan by first difference and construction of No.6 Naphtha Cracking Plant in Yunlin
Mailiao in 1999 by difference in difference. After adjusting for demographic factors, empirical result shows that nitrogen dioxide and suspended particles are a risk factor for postneonatal infant mortality in tobit model. However, all of suspended particles, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide don’t associate with respiratory-related
postneonatal infant mortality. The event analysis shows that PM10 has a certain degree of association with
postneonatal infant mortality, which also has positive relationship with respiratory-related postneonatal infant mortality. Finally, analysis of No.6 Naphtha Cracking Plant shows that after this plant was established in Yunlin Mailiao industrial zones in 1999,respiratory-related postneonatal infant mortality within Yunlin- Chiayi area indeed increases and nitrogen dioxide is the most risk factor for postneonatal infant mortality.
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