Junior Researcher Iván Kim tells us about the paper The Ocean and Early-Childhood Mortality, in which he is co-author with Non-Resident Fellow Alex Armand.

Fish stocks have decreased substantially over the last decades due to human exploitation of the ocean. This declining trend has been exacerbated by climate change, with acidifying waters harming marine life. This paper exploits exogenous variation in water acidity across time and space to study how the ocean impacts early-childhood mortality. We collat...