The Health Impacts of Severe Climate Shocks in Colombia

This paper studies the link between severe weather shocks in Colombia and municipality-level incidence of dengue and malaria. The unexpectedly high variability of the 2010 rainfalls relative to previous periods and their regional heterogeneity are exploited as an identification strategy. A differenc...

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Autores Principales: la Mata, Dolores de, Valencia-Amaya, Mauricio
Formato: Artículo (Article)
Lenguaje:Inglés (English)
Publicado: Econstor 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/26426
https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2533568