Otrachshenko, Vladimir and Popova, Olga and Solomin, Pavel (2018) Misfortunes never come singly: Consecutive weather shocks and mortality in Russia. ECONOMICS & HUMAN BIOLOGY, 31. pp. 249-258. ISSN 1570-677X, 1873-6130
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This paper examines the impacts of extremely hot and cold days on mortality in Russia, using a 25-year regional panel data. Unlike other studies, the sequence of those extreme days is also taken into account, that is, the impacts of both single and consecutive (i.e. heat waves and cold spells) extreme days are estimated simultaneously. We demonstrate the importance of accounting for the sequence of extreme days. We also disentangle the impacts of those extremes by age and gender. The findings suggest that single hot days increase mortality, while single cold days do not affect mortality. On the other hand, both consecutive hot and consecutive cold days increase mortality in females and males for all age groups, although males are affected more severely. Overall, consecutive days with extreme temperatures impose considerable costs to society in terms of years of life lost. Thus, ignoring the sequences of extreme days that are likely to increase in the future because of climate change may have critical implications for mitigation policies. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | CLIMATE-CHANGE; HIGH-TEMPERATURES; HEAT WAVES; HEALTH; ADAPTATION; IMPACT; COLD; VARIABILITY; STRESS; Climate change; Cold spells; Extreme weather; Heat waves; Mortality; Russia |
| Subjects: | 300 Social sciences > 330 Economics |
| Divisions: | Central Institutions > Wissenschaftszentrum Ost- und Südosteuropa Regensburg |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Dec 2019 09:53 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Dec 2019 09:53 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/13895 |
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