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What to Expect When It Gets Hotter: The Impacts of Prenatal Exposure to Extreme Heat on Maternal Health / Jiyoon Kim, Ajin Lee, Maya Rossin-Slater.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kim, Jiyoon.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w26384.
- NBER working paper series no. w26384
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- What to Expect When It Gets Hotter
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2019.
- Summary:
- We use temperature variation within narrowly-defined geographic and demographic cells to show that exposure to extreme heat increases the risk of maternal hospitalization during pregnancy for potentially life-threatening causes. We find that this effect is driven by women residing in historically cooler rather than hotter counties, suggesting that adaptation plays a role in mitigating the health impacts of weather shocks. We also find that the heat-induced deterioration in maternal pregnancy health is larger for black than for white mothers, suggesting that projected increases in extreme heat over the next century may further exacerbate the black-white maternal health gap.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- October 2019.
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