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Inexpensive Heating Reduces Winter Mortality / Janjala Chirakijja, Seema Jayachandran, Pinchuan Ong.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chirakijja, Janjala.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w25681.
- NBER working paper series no. w25681
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2019.
- Summary:
- This paper examines how the price of home heating affects mortality in the US. Exposure to cold is one reason that mortality peaks in winter, and a higher heating price increases exposure to cold by reducing heating use. It also raises energy bills, which could affect health by decreasing other health-promoting spending. Our empirical approach combines spatial variation in the energy source used for home heating and temporal variation in the national prices of natural gas versus electricity. We find that a lower heating price reduces winter mortality, driven mostly by cardiovascular and respiratory causes.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- March 2019.
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