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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Climate variability
Weather shocks
Vector-borne diseases
Dengue
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dc.title.spa.fl_str_mv The Health Impacts of Severe Climate Shocks in Colombia
dc.title.TranslatedTitle.spa.fl_str_mv Los impactos en la salud de los choques climáticos severos en Colombia
title The Health Impacts of Severe Climate Shocks in Colombia
spellingShingle The Health Impacts of Severe Climate Shocks in Colombia
Climate variability
Weather shocks
Vector-borne diseases
Dengue
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 The Health Impacts of Severe Climate Shocks in Colombia
dc.subject.keyword.spa.fl_str_mv Climate variability
Weather shocks
Vector-borne diseases
Dengue
topic Climate variability
Weather shocks
Vector-borne diseases
Dengue
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.
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