Abstract
Indoor air pollution (IAP) from cooking and heating stoves is a major cause of acute respiratory infections (ARI) and a serious health risk in developing countries. This paper examines improvements in respiratory health for children five and under in rural China resulting from stove and behavioural interventions to reduce IAP. The analysis uses data from a World Bank/Government of China project completed in 2006, whereby a large number of rural households from four provinces in China were subject to different combinations of stove improvement and behavioural interventions to reduce IAP levels and exposure. Difference-in-difference and matching models show that both stove and behavioural interventions were effective in reducing the incidence of ARI, although the latter are more cost effective.
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