The Death Effect of Severe Climate Variability
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 mortality rates. I find that severe heat increases mortality, while the health effect of severe cold is generally trivial. I show that exchang...
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| author | Compeán, Roberto Guerrero |
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| description | 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 mortality rates. I find that severe heat increases mortality, while the health effect of severe cold is generally trivial. I show that exchanging one day with a temperature of 16-18 °C for one day with temperatures higher than 30 °C increases the crude mortality rate by 0.15 percentage points, a result robust to several model specifications. It is also found that the extreme heat effect on death is significantly more acute in rural regions, leading to increases of up to 0.2 percentage points vis-à-vis a 0.07-point increase in urban areas. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/903592022-09-28T10:07:35Z The Death Effect of Severe Climate Variability Compeán, Roberto Guerrero Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and Planning Compeán, Roberto Guerrero 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 mortality rates. I find that severe heat increases mortality, while the health effect of severe cold is generally trivial. I show that exchanging one day with a temperature of 16-18 °C for one day with temperatures higher than 30 °C increases the crude mortality rate by 0.15 percentage points, a result robust to several model specifications. It is also found that the extreme heat effect on death is significantly more acute in rural regions, leading to increases of up to 0.2 percentage points vis-à-vis a 0.07-point increase in urban areas. 2014-09-25T19:36:50Z 2014-09-25T19:36:50Z 2013-01 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 22125671 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/90359 Compeán, Roberto Guerrero. “The Death Effect of Severe Climate Variability.” Procedia Economics and Finance 5 (January 2013): 182–191. en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2212-5671(13)00024-5 Procedia Economics and Finance Creative Commons Attribution http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ application/pdf Elsevier B.V. Elsevier |
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| title | The Death Effect of Severe Climate Variability |
| title_full | The Death Effect of Severe Climate Variability |
| title_fullStr | The Death Effect of Severe Climate Variability |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Death Effect of Severe Climate Variability |
| title_short | The Death Effect of Severe Climate Variability |
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