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Ambient Temperature During Gestation and Cold-Related Adult Mortality in a Swedish Cohort, 1915 to 2002
Bruckner, Tim A.; den Berg, Gerard J. van; Smith, Kirk R.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
For all climatic regions, mortality due to cold exceeds mortality due to heat. We examine whether cold-related mortality in adulthood varies positively with unusually benign ambient temperature during gestation, using data on over 13,500 Swedes from the Uppsala Birth Cohort Study born in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884158
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Adapting to Climate Change: The Remarkable Decline in the U.S. Temperature-Mortality Relationship over the 20th Century
Barreca, Alan I.; Clay, Karen; Deschenes, Olivier; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
A critical part of adapting to the higher temperatures that climate change brings will be the deployment of existing technologies to new sectors and regions. This paper examines the evolution of the temperature-mortality relationship over the course of the entire 20th century in the United...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210813
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Water Scarcity and Birth Outcomes in the Brazilian Semiarid
Rocha, Rudi; Soares, Rodrigo R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper analyzes the impact of rainfall fluctuations during the gestational period on health at birth. We … health. We find that negative rainfall shocks are robustly correlated with higher infant mortality, lower birth weight, and … minimized when the local public health infrastructure is sufficiently developed (municipality coverage of piped water and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011098405
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Climate Change, Natural Disasters and Migration: An Empirical Analysis in Developing Countries
Drabo, Alassane; Mbaye, Linguère Mously - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
The aim of this paper is to assess the relationship between natural disasters caused by climate change and migration by examining migration rates and levels of education in developing countries. Many studies such as the Stern review (2007) or the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283576
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Climate Amenities, Climate Change, and American Quality of Life
Albouy, David; Graf, Walter; Kellogg, Ryan; Wolff, Hendrik - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We present a hedonic framework to estimate U.S. households' preferences over local climates, using detailed weather and 2000 Census data. We find that Americans favor an average daily temperature of 65 degrees Fahrenheit, will pay more on the margin to avoid excess heat than cold, and are not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010638879
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Global Climate Change and the Resurgence of Tropical Disease: An Economic Approach
Gollin, Douglas; Zimmermann, Christian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We study the impact of global climate change on the prevalence of tropical diseases using a heterogeneous agent dynamic general equilibrium model. In our framework, households can take actions (e.g., purchasing bednets or other goods) that provide partial protection from disease. However, these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008466026
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The Short-Term Population Health Effects of Weather and Pollution: Implications of Climate Change
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Schmitt, Maike; Karlsson, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
ambient air pollution on population health. For Germany and the years 1999 to 2008, we link the universe of all 170 million … heat significantly increases hospitalizations and deaths. Extreme cold has a negligible effect on population health. High … simultaneous weather and pollution conditions. We find strong evidence for "harvesting", and that the instantaneous heat-health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734415
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Rural Households in a Changing Climate
Baez, Javier E.; Kronick, Dorothy; Mason, Andrew D. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper argues that climate change poses two distinct, if related, sets of challenges for poor rural households: challenges related to the increasing frequency and severity of weather shocks and challenges related to long-term shifts in temperature, rainfall patterns, water availability, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734762
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Climate Vulnerability, Communities' Resilience and Child Labour
Boutin, Delphine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This article clarifies and quantifies the causal impact of climate change vulnerability on child labour incidence and intensity. For this purpose, we create an index of vulnerability to climate change, composed of biophysical vulnerability and communities' resilience. Both, participation to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011074818
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Do Public Health Interventions Crowd Out Private Health Investments? Malaria Control Policies in Eritrea
Carneiro, Pedro; Locatelli, Andrea; Ghebremeskel, Tewolde; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
malaria more salient, leading to a change in beliefs about its importance and to an increase in private health investments. …
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