全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Heat, Humidity, and Infant Mortality in the Developing World

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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w24870
来源ID	Working Paper 24870
	Heat, Humidity, and Infant Mortality in the Developing World
	Michael Geruso; Dean Spears
发表日期	2018-07-30
出版年	2018
语种	英语
摘要	We study how extreme temperature exposure impacts infant survival in the developing world. Our analysis overcomes the absence of vital registration systems in many poor countries, which has been a limiting factor in the temperature-mortality literature, by extracting birth histories from household surveys. Studying 53 developing countries that span the globe, we find impacts of hot days on infant mortality that are an order of magnitude larger than estimates from rich country studies, with humidity playing an important role. The size and implied geographic distribution of harms documented here have the potential to significantly alter assessments of optimal climate policy.
主题	Public Economics ; Taxation ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; Development and Growth ; Development ; Environmental and Resource Economics ; Environment
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w24870
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/582544
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Michael Geruso,Dean Spears. Heat, Humidity, and Infant Mortality in the Developing World. 2018.