Long-term Effect of Climate Change on Health: Evidence from Heat Waves in Mexico
Jorge Agüero
No 165044, 2014 Annual Meeting, July 27-29, 2014, Minneapolis, Minnesota from Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
Abstract:
This paper uses year-to-year variation in temperature to estimate the long-term effects of climate change on health outcomes in Mexico. Combining temperature data at the district level and three rounds of nationally representative household surveys,an individual’s health as an adult is matched with the history of heat waves from birth to adulthood. A flexible econometric model is used to the identification of critical health periods with respect to temperature. It is shown that exposure to higher temperatures early in life has negative consequences on adult height. Most importantly,the effects are concentrated at the times where children experience growth spurts: infancy and adolescence. The robustness of these findings is confirmed when using health outcomes derived from accidents,which are uncorrelated to early exposure to high temperatures.
Keywords: Environmental Economics and Policy; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; Health Economics and Policy; International Development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27
Date: 2014-01
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.165044
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