Weather Shocks and Health at Birth in Colombia

Poor health at birth has negative long-run effects on individual well-being and is also detrimental for intergenerational mobility. This paper examines whether health outcomes at birth are affected by in utero increased exposure to rainfall and tem...

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Main Authors:	Andalon, Mabel, Azevedo, Joao Pedro, Rodriguez Castelan, Carlos, Sanfelice, Viviane, Valderrama, Daniel
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank Group, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:	ABNORMALITIES ADULT HEALTH ADULTHOOD ADVERSE EFFECT ADVERSE WEATHER AFFECTED COUNTRY AID ANNUAL FLUCTUATIONS IN WEATHER BABIES BABY BIRTH WEIGHT BIRTHWEIGHT BULLETIN CAESAREAN SECTION CHANGES IN PRECIPITATION CHILD HEALTH CHRONIC DISEASES CLIMATE CLIMATE CHANGE COLD WEATHER DEATHS DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT POLICY DISASTERS DISEASE DISEASES DROUGHT DROUGHT INDEX DROUGHT INDICES DROUGHT SEVERITY EARLY CHILDHOOD EARTHQUAKE EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EXTREME DROUGHT EXTREME HEAT EXTREME HEAT WAVES EXTREME PRECIPITATION EXTREME WEATHER EXTREME WEATHER EVENT EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS FEMALE FEMALE MORTALITY FETUS FIRST BIRTHS FLOOD FLOODING FLOODS FOOD SECURITY HEALTH CARE HEALTH CONSEQUENCES HEALTH EFFECTS HEALTH INDICATORS HEALTH OUTCOMES HUMAN CAPITAL IMPACT OF WEATHER IMPACTS OF WEATHER INDIVIDUAL WELFARE INFANT INFANT MORTALITY INFANT MORTALITY RATE INFECTIONS INFLUENZA INFLUENZA PANDEMIC INSURANCE SCHEMES LABOR MARKET LIVE BIRTHS LOW BIRTH WEIGHT MALNUTRITION MATERNAL NUTRITION MIGRATION MORBIDITY MORTALITY MORTALITY RATES MOTHER MULTIPLE BIRTHS NATURAL DISASTERS NEGATIVE EFFECTS NEWBORN NEWBORNS NUTRITION PERINATAL MORTALITY POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY MAKERS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POOR HEALTH PRECIPITATION PATTERNS PREGNANCIES PREGNANCY PREGNANT MOTHERS PREGNANT WOMEN PROGRESS PSYCHOLOGY PUBLIC HEALTH RESPECT RESPIRATION RURAL AREAS RURAL POPULATIONS SEVERE WEATHER SEVERE WEATHER EVENTS SEX SOCIAL MOBILITY SOCIAL PROGRAMS SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS TERRORIST TERTIARY EDUCATION VICTIMS VITAL STATISTICS WATER RESOURCES WATER SCARCITY WEATHER WEATHER CONDITIONS WEATHER EVENT WEATHER INSURANCE WEATHER SHOCK WEATHER SHOCKS
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/11/20346018/weather-shocks-health-birth-colombia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20636

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spelling	okr-10986-206362021-04-23T14:03:59Z Weather Shocks and Health at Birth in Colombia Andalon, Mabel Azevedo, Joao Pedro Rodriguez Castelan, Carlos Sanfelice, Viviane Valderrama, Daniel ABNORMALITIES ADULT HEALTH ADULTHOOD ADVERSE EFFECT ADVERSE WEATHER AFFECTED COUNTRY AID ANNUAL FLUCTUATIONS IN WEATHER BABIES BABY BIRTH WEIGHT BIRTHWEIGHT BULLETIN CAESAREAN SECTION CHANGES IN PRECIPITATION CHILD HEALTH CHRONIC DISEASES CLIMATE CLIMATE CHANGE COLD WEATHER DEATHS DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT POLICY DISASTERS DISEASE DISEASES DROUGHT DROUGHT INDEX DROUGHT INDICES DROUGHT SEVERITY EARLY CHILDHOOD EARTHQUAKE EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EXTREME DROUGHT EXTREME HEAT EXTREME HEAT WAVES EXTREME PRECIPITATION EXTREME WEATHER EXTREME WEATHER EVENT EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS FEMALE FEMALE MORTALITY FETUS FIRST BIRTHS FLOOD FLOODING FLOODS FOOD SECURITY HEALTH CARE HEALTH CONSEQUENCES HEALTH EFFECTS HEALTH INDICATORS HEALTH OUTCOMES HUMAN CAPITAL IMPACT OF WEATHER IMPACTS OF WEATHER INDIVIDUAL WELFARE INFANT INFANT MORTALITY INFANT MORTALITY RATE INFECTIONS INFLUENZA INFLUENZA PANDEMIC INSURANCE SCHEMES LABOR MARKET LIVE BIRTHS LOW BIRTH WEIGHT MALNUTRITION MATERNAL NUTRITION MIGRATION MORBIDITY MORTALITY MORTALITY RATES MOTHER MULTIPLE BIRTHS NATURAL DISASTERS NEGATIVE EFFECTS NEWBORN NEWBORNS NUTRITION PERINATAL MORTALITY POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY MAKERS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POOR HEALTH PRECIPITATION PATTERNS PREGNANCIES PREGNANCY PREGNANT MOTHERS PREGNANT WOMEN PROGRESS PSYCHOLOGY PUBLIC HEALTH RESPECT RESPIRATION RURAL AREAS RURAL POPULATIONS SEVERE WEATHER SEVERE WEATHER EVENTS SEX SOCIAL MOBILITY SOCIAL PROGRAMS SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS TERRORIST TERTIARY EDUCATION VICTIMS VITAL STATISTICS WATER RESOURCES WATER SCARCITY WEATHER WEATHER CONDITIONS WEATHER EVENT WEATHER INSURANCE WEATHER SHOCK WEATHER SHOCKS Poor health at birth has negative long-run effects on individual well-being and is also detrimental for intergenerational mobility. This paper examines whether health outcomes at birth are affected by in utero increased exposure to rainfall and temperature shocks in Colombia, one of the countries in the world with the highest incidence of extreme weather events per year. The paper uses a fixed effects design to gauge the causal effect using variation in fetal exposure to these shocks by municipality and date of birth. The analysis finds negative effects of temperature shocks on birth health outcomes and no effect of rainfall shocks. The results indicate that heat waves lead to a 0.5 percentage point reduction in the probability of being born at full term and a decline of 0.4 percentage point in the probability of newborns classified as healthy. The timing of exposure to the shock matters and it matters differently for different outcomes. These findings are critical to prioritize responses to counteract the negative effects of weather, particularly hot shocks, which are projected to become more frequent and intense with changing climate. 2014-12-03T20:57:13Z 2014-12-03T20:57:13Z 2014-11 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/11/20346018/weather-shocks-health-birth-colombia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20636 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7081 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Group, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research Latin America & Caribbean Colombia
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topic	ABNORMALITIES ADULT HEALTH ADULTHOOD ADVERSE EFFECT ADVERSE WEATHER AFFECTED COUNTRY AID ANNUAL FLUCTUATIONS IN WEATHER BABIES BABY BIRTH WEIGHT BIRTHWEIGHT BULLETIN CAESAREAN SECTION CHANGES IN PRECIPITATION CHILD HEALTH CHRONIC DISEASES CLIMATE CLIMATE CHANGE COLD WEATHER DEATHS DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT POLICY DISASTERS DISEASE DISEASES DROUGHT DROUGHT INDEX DROUGHT INDICES DROUGHT SEVERITY EARLY CHILDHOOD EARTHQUAKE EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EXTREME DROUGHT EXTREME HEAT EXTREME HEAT WAVES EXTREME PRECIPITATION EXTREME WEATHER EXTREME WEATHER EVENT EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS FEMALE FEMALE MORTALITY FETUS FIRST BIRTHS FLOOD FLOODING FLOODS FOOD SECURITY HEALTH CARE HEALTH CONSEQUENCES HEALTH EFFECTS HEALTH INDICATORS HEALTH OUTCOMES HUMAN CAPITAL IMPACT OF WEATHER IMPACTS OF WEATHER INDIVIDUAL WELFARE INFANT INFANT MORTALITY INFANT MORTALITY RATE INFECTIONS INFLUENZA INFLUENZA PANDEMIC INSURANCE SCHEMES LABOR MARKET LIVE BIRTHS LOW BIRTH WEIGHT MALNUTRITION MATERNAL NUTRITION MIGRATION MORBIDITY MORTALITY MORTALITY RATES MOTHER MULTIPLE BIRTHS NATURAL DISASTERS NEGATIVE EFFECTS NEWBORN NEWBORNS NUTRITION PERINATAL MORTALITY POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY MAKERS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POOR HEALTH PRECIPITATION PATTERNS PREGNANCIES PREGNANCY PREGNANT MOTHERS PREGNANT WOMEN PROGRESS PSYCHOLOGY PUBLIC HEALTH RESPECT RESPIRATION RURAL AREAS RURAL POPULATIONS SEVERE WEATHER SEVERE WEATHER EVENTS SEX SOCIAL MOBILITY SOCIAL PROGRAMS SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS TERRORIST TERTIARY EDUCATION VICTIMS VITAL STATISTICS WATER RESOURCES WATER SCARCITY WEATHER WEATHER CONDITIONS WEATHER EVENT WEATHER INSURANCE WEATHER SHOCK WEATHER SHOCKS
spellingShingle	ABNORMALITIES ADULT HEALTH ADULTHOOD ADVERSE EFFECT ADVERSE WEATHER AFFECTED COUNTRY AID ANNUAL FLUCTUATIONS IN WEATHER BABIES BABY BIRTH WEIGHT BIRTHWEIGHT BULLETIN CAESAREAN SECTION CHANGES IN PRECIPITATION CHILD HEALTH CHRONIC DISEASES CLIMATE CLIMATE CHANGE COLD WEATHER DEATHS DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT POLICY DISASTERS DISEASE DISEASES DROUGHT DROUGHT INDEX DROUGHT INDICES DROUGHT SEVERITY EARLY CHILDHOOD EARTHQUAKE EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EXTREME DROUGHT EXTREME HEAT EXTREME HEAT WAVES EXTREME PRECIPITATION EXTREME WEATHER EXTREME WEATHER EVENT EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS FEMALE FEMALE MORTALITY FETUS FIRST BIRTHS FLOOD FLOODING FLOODS FOOD SECURITY HEALTH CARE HEALTH CONSEQUENCES HEALTH EFFECTS HEALTH INDICATORS HEALTH OUTCOMES HUMAN CAPITAL IMPACT OF WEATHER IMPACTS OF WEATHER INDIVIDUAL WELFARE INFANT INFANT MORTALITY INFANT MORTALITY RATE INFECTIONS INFLUENZA INFLUENZA PANDEMIC INSURANCE SCHEMES LABOR MARKET LIVE BIRTHS LOW BIRTH WEIGHT MALNUTRITION MATERNAL NUTRITION MIGRATION MORBIDITY MORTALITY MORTALITY RATES MOTHER MULTIPLE BIRTHS NATURAL DISASTERS NEGATIVE EFFECTS NEWBORN NEWBORNS NUTRITION PERINATAL MORTALITY POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY MAKERS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POOR HEALTH PRECIPITATION PATTERNS PREGNANCIES PREGNANCY PREGNANT MOTHERS PREGNANT WOMEN PROGRESS PSYCHOLOGY PUBLIC HEALTH RESPECT RESPIRATION RURAL AREAS RURAL POPULATIONS SEVERE WEATHER SEVERE WEATHER EVENTS SEX SOCIAL MOBILITY SOCIAL PROGRAMS SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS TERRORIST TERTIARY EDUCATION VICTIMS VITAL STATISTICS WATER RESOURCES WATER SCARCITY WEATHER WEATHER CONDITIONS WEATHER EVENT WEATHER INSURANCE WEATHER SHOCK WEATHER SHOCKS Andalon, Mabel Azevedo, Joao Pedro Rodriguez Castelan, Carlos Sanfelice, Viviane Valderrama, Daniel Weather Shocks and Health at Birth in Colombia
geographic_facet	Latin America & Caribbean Colombia
relation	Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7081
description	Poor health at birth has negative long-run effects on individual well-being and is also detrimental for intergenerational mobility. This paper examines whether health outcomes at birth are affected by in utero increased exposure to rainfall and temperature shocks in Colombia, one of the countries in the world with the highest incidence of extreme weather events per year. The paper uses a fixed effects design to gauge the causal effect using variation in fetal exposure to these shocks by municipality and date of birth. The analysis finds negative effects of temperature shocks on birth health outcomes and no effect of rainfall shocks. The results indicate that heat waves lead to a 0.5 percentage point reduction in the probability of being born at full term and a decline of 0.4 percentage point in the probability of newborns classified as healthy. The timing of exposure to the shock matters and it matters differently for different outcomes. These findings are critical to prioritize responses to counteract the negative effects of weather, particularly hot shocks, which are projected to become more frequent and intense with changing climate.
format	Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
author	Andalon, Mabel Azevedo, Joao Pedro Rodriguez Castelan, Carlos Sanfelice, Viviane Valderrama, Daniel
author_facet	Andalon, Mabel Azevedo, Joao Pedro Rodriguez Castelan, Carlos Sanfelice, Viviane Valderrama, Daniel
author_sort	Andalon, Mabel
title	Weather Shocks and Health at Birth in Colombia
title_short	Weather Shocks and Health at Birth in Colombia
title_full	Weather Shocks and Health at Birth in Colombia
title_fullStr	Weather Shocks and Health at Birth in Colombia
title_full_unstemmed	Weather Shocks and Health at Birth in Colombia
title_sort	weather shocks and health at birth in colombia
publisher	World Bank Group, Washington, DC
publishDate	2014
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/11/20346018/weather-shocks-health-birth-colombia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20636
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