TY  - BOOK
AU  - Geruso,Michael
AU  - Spears,Dean
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - Heat, Humidity, and Infant Mortality in the Developing World
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - July 2018; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - 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
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w24870
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w24870
ER  -