Too hot to handle: The effects of high temperatures during pregnancy on adult welfare outcomes

Hu, Zihan; Li, Teng

doi:10.1016/j.jeem.2019.01.006

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“…A burgeoning literature has identified adverse short-term impacts of extreme temperatures on several population outcomes, including elderly mortality (Deschênes and Moretti, 2009;Deschênes and Greenstone, 2011), emergency department visits and hospitalizations (Green et al, 2010;White, 2017), and cognitive performance (Cho, 2017;Garg et al, 2018;Goodman et al, 2018;Graff Zivin, Hsiang, and Neidell, 2018). Further, two recent studies have shown that in utero heat exposure has lasting negative effects on long-term cognitive ability (Hu and Li, 2019) and adult earnings (Isen, Rossin-Slater, and Walker, 2017), highlighting the sensitivity of the prenatal period to extreme heat. 2 To the best of our knowledge, however, no prior studies have identified the causal effects of prenatal exposure to extreme temperatures on the health of the mothers themselves, and this paper aims to fill this gap.…”

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What to Expect When It Gets Hotter: The Impacts of Prenatal Exposure to Extreme Heat on Maternal Health

Kim¹,

Lee²,

Rossin‐Slater³

2019

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Any opinions expressed in this paper are those of the author(s) and not those of IZA. Research published in this series may include views on policy, but IZA takes no institutional policy positions. The IZA research network is committed to the IZA Guiding Principles of Research Integrity. The IZA Institute of Labor Economics is an independent economic research institute that conducts research in labor economics and offers evidence-based policy advice on labor market issues. Supported by the Deutsche Post Foundation, IZA runs the world's largest network of economists, whose research aims to provide answers to the global labor market challenges of our time. Our key objective is to build bridges between academic research, policymakers and society. IZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author.

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What to Expect When It Gets Hotter: The Impacts of Prenatal Exposure to Extreme Heat on Maternal Health

Kim¹,

Lee²,

Rossin‐Slater³

2019

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“…Because there is a negative relationship between in utero exposure to hot weather (especially in the second and third trimesters) and health at birth (Deschênes et al 2009;Sun et al 2019;Hajdu and Hajdu 2020b; Barreca and Schaller 2020;Chen et al 2020), the slight change in timing of conception could have a non-negligible impact. Further consequences are also possible, as temperature exposure during pregnancy influences adult outcomes too (Wilde et al 2017;Isen et al 2017;Fishman et al 2019;Hu and Li 2019).…”

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Temperature, climate change, and human conception rates: evidence from Hungary

Hajdu

2021

J Popul Econ

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In this paper, we examine the relationship between temperature and human conception rates and project the impacts of climate change by the mid-twenty-first century. Using complete administrative data on 6.8 million pregnancies between 1980 and 2015 in Hungary, we show that exposure to hot temperatures reduces the conception rate in the first few weeks following exposure, but a partial rebound is observed after that. We project that with absent adaptation, climate change will increase seasonal differences in conception rates and annual conception rates will decline. A change in the number of induced abortions and spontaneous fetal losses drives the decline in conception rates. The number of live births is unaffected. However, some newborns will experience a shift in the timing of conception that leads to changes in in utero temperature exposure and therefore might have further consequences.

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“…Chen et al, 2013;X. Chen, Tan, Zhang, & Zhang, 2020;He & Perloff, 2016;Hu & Li, 2019), no study has directly addressed the health effect of rainfall fluctuations. This study therefore extends the literature by establishing the causal effect of rainfall shocks on health outcomes in China.…”

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“…The lack of preventive or protective mechanisms in rural areas with poor economic and disadvantaged environmental conditions makes children especially vulnerable to these shocks. Numerous studies have highlighted the effect of rainfall shocks on children's contemporaneous health status in several developing countries (Dinkelman, 2017; Hoddinott & Kinsey, 2001; Rocha & Soares, 2015) as well as their accumulated health and human capital in the long run (Alderman, Hoddinott, & Kinsey, 2006; Maccini & Yang, 2009; Pathania, 2007).…”

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Effects of drought on infant mortality in China

Lin

Liu

2020

Health Economics

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This study focuses on Guizhou Province, a region with difficult geographical conditions and poor economic development, to examine the effect of rainfall shocks on contemporaneous infant health and long‐run socioeconomic outcomes in China. The study results indicate that negative rainfall shocks are robustly correlated with higher infant mortality and lower birth weight. In the long run, early life rainfall shortages limit an individual's income and housing conditions. The study findings indicate a significant interaction of rainfall shock with the severity of water scarcity. This result implies that drinking water safety is an essential channel through which early life rainfall shocks influence individual health endowments. However, agriculture production is not a likely channel for rainfall effects despite its association with infant mortality. Accordingly, our empirical results suggest that improving public facility coverage will reduce the vulnerability of infant health to adverse rainfall shocks in Guizhou and other developing areas.

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Too hot to handle: The effects of high temperatures during pregnancy on adult welfare outcomes

Cited by 45 publications

References 29 publications

What to Expect When It Gets Hotter: The Impacts of Prenatal Exposure to Extreme Heat on Maternal Health

What to Expect When It Gets Hotter: The Impacts of Prenatal Exposure to Extreme Heat on Maternal Health

Temperature, climate change, and human conception rates: evidence from Hungary

Effects of drought on infant mortality in China

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