Climate Change and Mortality: Evidence from Iran

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Arab, Pouya | 2023

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Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
Language: Farsi
Document No: 56288 (44)
University: Sharif University of Technology
Department: Management and Economics
Advisor(s): Vesal, Mohammad
Abstract:
Due to the prominence of the evaluation of the consequences of rising temperatures, this paper examines the effects of temperature variation on mortality across different demographic groups in Iran. I use a rich weekly data set from 2009 to 2017 across different demographic groups to understand the potential health impacts of climate change in a developing country. Using several fixed effect regressions, I discover that for an additional day with a mean temperature over 25°C, mortality rate increases by 2.56% relative to the effects of an extra day in 0-5 °C, in the weekly temperature exposure horizon. I test for the harvesting effect by comparing the estimates at weekly and monthly temperature exposure windows. As I widen the temperature exposure window in hot temperatures, the aforementioned estimate shrinks to 0.53%. Broad- ening the temperature exposure horizon, I demonstrate that the estimates for infants and seniors, in contrast to other demographic groups, remain large and significant
Keywords:
Climate Change ; Mortality ; Temperature Variation ; Weather Effect ; Iran Climatic Data ; Health Economics

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