Daylight Saving Time and incidence of myocardial infarction: Evidence from a regression discontinuity design

Toro, Weily; Tigre, Robson; Sampaio, Breno

doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2015.08.005

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“…In 2018 and 2019, there were higher rates of all outcomes in March compared to February of the same year, which is a previously reported phenomenon. [10][11][12] All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission.…”

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Decreased Stroke, Acute Coronary Syndrome, and Corresponding Interventions at 65 US Hospitals Following COVID-19

Havenon

Callaghan

et al. 2020

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Decreased Stroke, Acute Coronary Syndrome, and Corresponding Interventions at 65 US Hospitals Following COVID-19

Havenon

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“…In robustness tests we also employ a donut RDD approach [5], repeating the analysis when omitting AE 1 to AE 10 days around the transition threshold to account for unobserved confounders that may change discontinuously at the threshold. Similar approaches for estimating the impact of DST have been applied by Toro et al [57], Doleac and Sanders [15] and Smith [52] among others. Figure 1 illustrates the discontinuity motivating the empirical approach.…”

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“…Kountouris and Remoundou [39] find that transitions lead to lower self-reported life satisfaction and worse mood, using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel. Toro et al [57] find that myocardial infarction increases in the aftermath of DST. Importantly for the present paper, evidence suggests that a relationship exists between sleep and accident occurrence.…”

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“…Entering DST in Spring costs on average between 40 min and 60 min of sleep and leads to medium term disruption of sleep patterns that can last for up to 2 weeks 1 [4,21,51]. DST-induced disruptions in sleep patterns affect circadian rhythms [21,34], increase accidents [4,52] and impact health [57]. Exploring whether a link exists between residential fire occurrence, DST and sleep can assist in designing fire safety policies and information campaigns especially as sleep deprivation is becoming increasing prevalent in contemporary societies [7,59].…”

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An Assessment of the Relationship Between Daylight Saving Time, Disruptions in Sleep Patterns and Dwelling Fires

Kountouris

2020

Fire Technol

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Residential fires pose threats to living environments, generating costs to health and property. Understanding the roles of human behavior and social organization in determining fire occurrence is important for developing strategies to manage fire risk. This paper tests the impact of daylight saving time (DST) transitions on dwelling fire occurrence. DST transitions affect sleep patterns, impairing human cognitive and motor performance, potentially influencing the incidence of dwelling fires. Employing a regression discontinuity design with time as the running variable and using data from over 260,000 primary dwelling fires that took place in the U.K. over 8 years we do not find evidence suggesting that DST transitions impact on dwelling fire occurrence. For both the start of DST and end of DST transitions, estimated effects is quantitatively small and statistically insignificant. Results suggest that disruptions in sleep patterns induced by DST are not a driver of dwelling fires in the U.K.

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“…Toro et al analyzed the effects of acute light sleep deprivation and circadian rhythm disturbances due to daylight saving time on the incidence of acute myocardial infarction using daily data for Brazil. They found robust evidence of a significant increase (7.4-8.5%) in the number of acute myocardial infarctions in Brazilian states with a time change to summer time but no statistical relationship between states without a time change [9].…”

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Impact of DST (Daylight Saving Time) on Major Trauma: A European Cohort Study

Nohl

Seelmann

Roenick

et al. 2021

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(1) Background: Approximately 73 countries worldwide implemented a daylight saving time (DST) policy: setting their clocks forward in spring and back in fall. The main purpose of this practice is to save electricity. The aim of the present study was to find out how DST affects the incidence and impact of seriously injured patients. (2) Methods: In a retrospective, multi-center study, we used the data recorded in the TraumaRegister DGU® (TR-DGU) between 2003 and 2017 from Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. We compared the included cases 1 week before and after DST. (3) Results: After DST from standard time to summertime, we found an increased incidence of accidents of motorcyclists up to 51.58%. The result is consistent with other studies. (4) Conclusion: However, our results should be interpreted as a tendency. Other influencing factors, such as time of day and weather conditions, were not considered.

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Daylight Saving Time and incidence of myocardial infarction: Evidence from a regression discontinuity design

Cited by 25 publications

References 17 publications

Decreased Stroke, Acute Coronary Syndrome, and Corresponding Interventions at 65 US Hospitals Following COVID-19

Decreased Stroke, Acute Coronary Syndrome, and Corresponding Interventions at 65 US Hospitals Following COVID-19

An Assessment of the Relationship Between Daylight Saving Time, Disruptions in Sleep Patterns and Dwelling Fires

Impact of DST (Daylight Saving Time) on Major Trauma: A European Cohort Study

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