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The curse of bad geography : stagnant water, diseases, and children's human capital
Berggreen, Steve; Mattisson, Linn - 2023
Waterborne diseases lead to over 6 billion diarrheal episodes per year, with most of the burden on children in low-income countries. We employ hydrological engineering principles to construct a novel measure of stagnant water, crucial to the spread of these diseases. Using a...
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Mortality, temperature, and public health provision : a comment on Cohen and Dechezlepretre (2022)
Benjamin, Grant; Couillard, Ben; Hall, Jonathan Daines - 2023
Cohen and Dechezleprêtre (2022) investigate the heterogeneous impact of temperature on mortality across Mexico, and how affordable healthcare services that target the low-income population attenuate the mortality effects of weather events. They find that while extreme temperatures are more...
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Temperature, human health, and adaptation: A review of the empirical literature
Deschenes, Olivier - In: Energy Economics 46 (2014) C, pp. 606-619
, and adaptation to temperature extremes. The objectives of the paper are to highlight the many remaining gaps in the … to incorporate human health and adaptation in its framework. I begin by presenting the conceptual and methodological … issues associated with the measurement of the effect of temperature extremes on health, and the role of adaptation in …
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Weather and Welfare : Health and Agricultural Impacts of Climate Extremes, Evidence from Mexico
Compean, Roberto - 2015
Using data for all 2,454 municipalities of Mexico for the period 1980-2010, this paper analyzes the relationship between exposure to extreme temperatures and precipitation and death, as well as the relationship between severe weather and agricultural income and crop production in the country. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013035523
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The impact of displacement on child health : evidence from Colombia's DHS 2010
Wald, Nina - 2014
This paper investigates the causal impact of displacement on health outcomes for Colombian children of different age cohorts. It uses the Colombian Demographic and Health Survey 2010, which provides both a number of health outcomes and information about displacement of households. Two different...
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Effect of extreme weather events on child health in rural Uganda
Amondo, Emily Injete; Mirzabaev, Alisher; Rukundo, … - 2021
Children in rural farming households across the developing countries are often vulnerable to a multitude of risks, including health risks associated with climate change and variability. This study empirically traced the effect of extreme weather events on nutritional health outcomes among rural...
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The power of markets : impact of desert locust invasions on child health
Conte, Bruno; Piemontese, Lavinia; Tapsoba, Augustin - 2021
This paper investigates the consequences of a locust plague that occurred in Mali in 2004. We argue that in agricultural economies with a single harvest per year, this type of shock can affect households through two channels: first, a speculative/anticipatory effect that kicks in during the...
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Health insurance and child health : evidence from Mexico
Conti, Gabriella; Ginja, Rita - 2016
We present evidence on the health impacts and mechanisms of a large expansion in non-contributory health insurance in Mexico. The Seguro Popular (SP) was rolled out in 2002-2010 across municipalities, providing exogenous variation in access to health services without co-pays. Our intent-to-treat...
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Profiling the US sick leave landscape
Susser, Philip; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2016
This paper profiles the sick leave landscape in the US – the only industrialized country without universal access to paid sick leave or other forms of paid leave. We exploit the 2011 Leave Supplement of the American Time Use Survey (ATUS), a representative and comprehensive database on sick...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452143
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Does medicaid coverage for pregnant women affect prenatal health behaviors?
Dave, Dhaval; Kaestner, Robert; Wehby, George - 2016
Despite plausible mechanisms, little research has evaluated potential changes in health behaviors as a result of the Medicaid expansions of the 1980s and 1990s. In this paper, we provide the first national study of the effects of Medicaid on health behaviors for pregnant women, which is a group...
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