Heat, infant mortality, and adaptation: Evidence from India

Banerjee, Rakesh; Maharaj, Riddhi

doi:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2019.102378

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“…This pattern is consistent with studies showing a strong, positive relationship between temperature and infant mortality in developing countries(Banerjee and Bhowmick 2016;Geruso and Spears 2018). SeeBarreca et al (2016) for evidence that the positive relationship between temperature and mortality weakened during the 20 th century.Barreca et al (2016, p. 156) concluded that air conditioning was: …a central determinant in the reduction of the mortality risk associated with high temperatures during the twentieth century.…”

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The phenomenon of summer diarrhea and its waning, 1910-1930

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Wang

2020

Explorations in Economic History

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During the first two decades of the 20th century, diarrheal deaths among American infants and children surged every summer. Although we still do not know what pathogen (or pathogens) caused this phenomenon, the consensus view is that it was eventually controlled through public health efforts at the municipal level. Using data from 26 major American cities for the period 1910-1930, we document the phenomenon of summer diarrhea and explore its dissipation. We find that water filtration is associated with a 15-17 percent reduction in diarrheal mortality among children under the age of two during the non-summer months, but does not seem to have had an effect on diarrheal mortality during the summer. In general, we find little evidence to suggest that public health interventions undertaken at the municipal level contributed to the dissipation of summer diarrhea. Our results are relevant for many parts of the developing world today, where climate change is expected to affect the length and intensity of seasons as well as the incidence of diarrheal diseases.

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The phenomenon of summer diarrhea and its waning, 1910-1930

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2020

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“…Garg et al (2018) finds that NREGS decreases heat's adverse effects on child education. However, Banerjee and Maharaj (2019) do not find any attenuating effects of NREGS on the adverse effects of heat on infant mortality.…”

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Protecting girls from droughts with social safety nets

Chatterjee

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2021

World Development

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“…Several papers set in developing world contexts consider environmental shocks that affect outcomes through changes in income. 7 Most closely related to our work, however, is a set of papers that explicitly consider heterogeneity in the effects of temperature on mortality: Barreca et al (2016); Burgess et al (2017); Banerjee and Maharaj (2018); Cohen and Dechezleprêtre (2018). Burgess et al (2017) demonstrate that from 1957-2000, the heat-mortality relationship was much stronger in rural versus urban India.…”

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