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...
| Autores Principales: | , |
|---|---|
| Formato: | Artículo (Article) |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés (English) |
| Publicado: |
Econstor
2014
|
| Materias: | |
| Acceso en línea: | https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/26426 https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2533568 |
| id |
ir-10336-26426 |
|---|---|
| recordtype |
dspace |
| spelling |
ir-10336-264262020-08-06T16:21:40Z The Health Impacts of Severe Climate Shocks in Colombia Los impactos en la salud de los choques climáticos severos en Colombia la Mata, Dolores de Valencia-Amaya, Mauricio Climate variability Weather shocks Vector-borne diseases Dengue 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 differences-indifferences (DD) strategy is thereby implemented where the period 2007-2009 is defined as the pre-treatment period and 2010-2011 as the post-treatment period. The treatment group is all municipalities that experienced higher intra-year rain variability in 2010 than in 2007-2009. The results from the different specifications confirm that the relationship between climate events and vector-borne diseases is intricate. The 2010 weather shocks are associated with not only an increase in the number of dengue cases, in the case of high variability (but not extreme) yearly rain, but also a decrease in its incidence, in particular in the presence of extreme rain events. Floods seem to have decreased the number of dengue cases. 2014 2020-08-06T16:21:40Z info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion ISSN: 1556-5068 https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/26426 https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2533568 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess application/pdf Econstor SSRN Electronic Journal |
| institution |
EdocUR - Universidad del Rosario |
| collection |
DSpace |
| language |
Inglés (English) |
| topic |
Climate variability Weather shocks Vector-borne diseases Dengue |
| spellingShingle |
Climate variability Weather shocks Vector-borne diseases Dengue la Mata, Dolores de Valencia-Amaya, Mauricio The Health Impacts of Severe Climate Shocks in Colombia |
| description |
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 differences-indifferences (DD) strategy is thereby implemented where the period 2007-2009 is defined as the pre-treatment period and 2010-2011 as the post-treatment period. The treatment group is all municipalities that experienced higher intra-year rain variability in 2010 than in 2007-2009. The results from the different specifications confirm that the relationship between climate events and vector-borne diseases is intricate. The 2010 weather shocks are associated with not only an increase in the number of dengue cases, in the case of high variability (but not extreme) yearly rain, but also a decrease in its incidence, in particular in the presence of extreme rain events. Floods seem to have decreased the number of dengue cases. |
| format |
Artículo (Article) |
| author |
la Mata, Dolores de Valencia-Amaya, Mauricio |
| author_facet |
la Mata, Dolores de Valencia-Amaya, Mauricio |
| author_sort |
la Mata, Dolores de |
| title |
The Health Impacts of Severe Climate Shocks in Colombia |
| title_short |
The Health Impacts of Severe Climate Shocks in Colombia |
| title_full |
The Health Impacts of Severe Climate Shocks in Colombia |
| title_fullStr |
The Health Impacts of Severe Climate Shocks in Colombia |
| title_full_unstemmed |
The Health Impacts of Severe Climate Shocks in Colombia |
| title_sort |
health impacts of severe climate shocks in colombia |
| publisher |
Econstor |
| publishDate |
2014 |
| url |
https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/26426 https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2533568 |
| _version_ |
1674805832084094976 |
| score |
12,131701 |