Weather shocks, infant mortality, and adaptation: Experimental evidence from Uganda☆
成果类型：
Article
署名作者：
Nyqvist, Martina Bjorkman; von Carnap, Tillmann; Guariso, Andrea; Svensson, Jakob
署名单位：
University of Oslo; University of Milano-Bicocca; Stockholm University
刊物名称：
JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
ISSN/ISSBN：
0304-3878
DOI：
10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103478
发表日期：
2025
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摘要：
Climate change is increasing the intensity of extreme weather events. Health is a primary channel through which climate change affects welfare. Yet, estimates of the mitigating effects of health system strengthening are largely missing. We combine data from a randomized trial inducing variation in healthcare access with naturally-occurring variation in growing-season precipitation to study the adaptive impact of community healthcare in a low-income country setting. The risk of infant death increases following low growing-season rainfall, but access to community healthcare reduces this risk by 46 %. Using our estimates coupled with projections from climatological models implies even larger potential adaptive effects.
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