Lluvias, servicios públicos y mortalidad infantil en Colombia
This paper studies the role of aqueduct and sewerage public service coverage as protection mechanisms against extreme rainfall phenomena in Colombia for the period 1985-2018. Measuring these phenomena as the number of days per year in which a municipality suffered from droughts or heavy rains, I fin...
- Autores:
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Burgos Velasco, Juan Sebastián
- Tipo de recurso:
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2020
- Institución:
- Universidad de los Andes
- Repositorio:
- Séneca: repositorio Uniandes
- Idioma:
- spa
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:repositorio.uniandes.edu.co:1992/50887
- Acceso en línea:
- http://hdl.handle.net/1992/50887
- Palabra clave:
- Servicios públicos domiciliarios
Acueductos
Precipitación pluvial
Mortalidad infantil
Economía
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
| Summary: | This paper studies the role of aqueduct and sewerage public service coverage as protection mechanisms against extreme rainfall phenomena in Colombia for the period 1985-2018. Measuring these phenomena as the number of days per year in which a municipality suffered from droughts or heavy rains, I find that aqueduct and sewer coverage reduces the effect of droughts and extreme rainfall, respectively, on infant mortality rates. When differentiating mortality by sex, the effects result more considerable for boys, consistent with the medical literature that indicates a greater strength of girls' immune system. Moreover, cause-specific mortality estimates reveal that only water origin diseases are related to these effects. |
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