Extreme temperatures, mortality, and adaptation: Evidence from the county level in China

H Liao, C Zhang, PJ Burke, R Li, YM Wei - Health Economics, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Extreme temperatures are known to cause adverse health outcomes. Yet knowledge on the
magnitude of this effect in develo** countries is limited due to data availability and …

Household fuel transitions have substantially contributed to child mortality reductions in China

L Zhu, H Liao, PJ Burke - World Development, 2023 - Elsevier
Household air pollution from use of solid fuels such as coal and firewood for cooking is
common in the develo** world. Children under five years of age are likely to be …

Variation in under-5 mortality attributable to anomalous precipitation during El Niño–Southern Oscillation cycles: Assessment of the intertemporal inequality in child …

T Xue, J Wu, F Li, M Tong, H Liu, W Yang… - Global Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
Objective To explore the health effect of anomalous precipitation on deaths among children
younger than 5 years (under-5 deaths) in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) …

The impact of cold waves and heat waves on mortality: Evidence from a lower middle‐income country

CV Nguyen, MH Nguyen, TT Nguyen - Health Economics, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We estimate the impact of temperature extremes on mortality in Vietnam, using daily data on
temperatures and monthly data on mortality during the 2000–2018 period. We find that both …

Rainfall shocks, child mortality, and water infrastructure

S Ponnusamy - Health Economics, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
I study the effect of rainfall shocks on child mortality at a sub‐national level for a global set of
develo** countries. I establish that negative (positive) shocks to rainfall lead to an …

The impact of timing of in utero drought shocks on birth outcomes in rural households: evidence from Sierra Leone

O Abiona, JB Ajefu - Journal of Population Economics, 2023 - Springer
This paper investigates the impact of timeline-bound fetal exposure to drought shocks on
birth outcomes in rural Sierra Leone. We link repeated cross-section birth record data across …

Prediction for various drought classes using spatiotemporal categorical sequences

R Niaz, MMA Almazah, X Zhang, I Hussain… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Drought frequently spreads across large spatial and time scales and is more complicated
than other natural disasters that can damage economic and other natural resources …

Climate adaptation policies and infant health: evidence from a water policy in Brazil

D Da Mata, L Emanuel, V Pereira, B Sampaio - Journal of Public Economics, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper studies how in utero exposure to a large-scale climate adaptation program
affects birth outcomes. The program built around one million cisterns in Brazil's poorest and …

Long-term drought and risk of infant mortality in Africa: A cross-sectional study

P Wang, T Rogne, JL Warren, EO Asare… - PLoS …, 2025 - journals.plos.org
Background As extreme events such as drought and flood are projected to increase in
frequency and intensity under climate change, there is still large missing evidence on how …

COVID-19 and Indigenous health in the Brazilian Amazon

B Wichmann, R Wichmann - Economic Modelling, 2022 - Elsevier
We test whether the COVID-19 pandemic has an ethnicity-differentiated (Indigenous vs non-
Indigenous) effect on infant health in the Brazilian Amazon. Using vital statistics data we find …