Does Access to Health Care Mitigate Environmental Damages?
Jamie Mullins () and
Corey White
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Jamie Mullins: Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
No 1905, Working Papers from California Polytechnic State University, Department of Economics
Abstract:
Differential access to health care is commonly cited as a source of heterogeneity in environmental health damages, yet little causal evidence exists to support such claims. We address this deficit in two settings by testing whether the negative impacts of ambient temperature exposure on mortality were mitigated by (1) access to primary care through the Community Health Center program, and (2) access to hospital care through the desegregation of Southern hospitals. The results demonstrate that increased access to health care can drive heterogeneity in environmental damages when the mode of care is sufficiently relevant to the damages suffered.
Keywords: Health Care; Access; Climate; Temperature; Environment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I10 I14 I18 Q50 Q52 Q54 Q58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 54 pages
Date: 2019
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