Mortality, temperature, and public health provision: A comment on Cohen and Dechezlepretre (2022)

Grant Benjamin, Ben Couillard and Jonathan Hall

No 90, I4R Discussion Paper Series from The Institute for Replication (I4R)

Abstract: 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 dangerous than less extreme temperatures, the increased frequency of non-extreme temperatures mean these temperatures cause more deaths. First, we reproduce the paper's main findings, uncovering a minor coding error that has a trivial effect on the main results. Second, we test the robustness of the results to clustering at the state level, omitting precipitation, and using a different weighting scheme. The original results are robust to all of these changes.

Keywords: Mortality; Weather Events; Affordable Health Care; Poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I12 I13 I14 O13 O14 Q54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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