Data and code for: "Mortality, Temperature and Public Health Provision: Evidence from Mexico"

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Francois Cohen, University of Barcelona; Antoine Dechezlepretre, London School of Economics

Version: View help for Version V1

Name	File Type	Size	Last Modified
1. Create weather data			04/02/2021 11:32:AM
2. Create death rates			04/02/2021 11:32:AM
3. Produce Figure 1			04/02/2021 11:53:AM
4. Produce Figure 2, Table 2 and Table 3			04/02/2021 11:53:AM
5. Produce Figure 3, Table 4 and Appendix C			04/02/2021 11:54:AM
6. Produce Table 1			04/02/2021 11:57:AM
7. Produce Table 5 and Table 6			04/02/2021 11:57:AM
Appendix A			04/02/2021 12:02:PM
Appendix B			04/02/2021 12:02:PM
Appendix D			04/02/2021 12:03:PM

Project Citation:

Cohen, Francois, and Dechezlepretre, Antoine. Data and code for: “Mortality, Temperature and Public Health Provision: Evidence from Mexico.” Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2022. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2022-04-21. https://doi.org/10.3886/E125201V1

Project Description

Summary: We examine the impact of temperature on mortality in Mexico using daily data over the period 1998-2017 and find that 3.8 percent of deaths in Mexico are caused by suboptimal temperature (26,000 every year). However, 92 percent of weather-related deaths are induced by cold (<12°C) or mildly cold (12-20°C) days and only 2 percent by outstandingly hot days (>32°C). Furthermore, temperatures are twice more likely to kill people in the bottom half of the income distribution. Finally, we show causal evidence that the Seguro Popular, a universal healthcare policy, has saved at least 1,600 lives per year from cold weather since 2004.

Funding Sources: Economic and Social Research Council (United Kingdom); Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment; Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford)

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: Temperature; Mortality; universal healthcare

JEL Classification:
      I13 Health Insurance, Public and Private
      I14 Health and Inequality
      Q50 Environmental Economics: General

Geographic Coverage: Mexico

Time Period(s): 1/1/1990 – 12/31/2017

Data Type(s): program source code

Collection Notes:

The code shared was used to produce the figures and tables in Cohen and Dechezlepretre (2020). The mortality data comes from the Mexican INEGI. The weather data is from the base de datos meteorologica nacional de Mexico, which can be obtained upon request to the Mexican Coordinación General del Servicio Meteorológico Nacional de la Comisión Nacional del Agua (https://www.gob.mx/conagua).

Methodology

Data Source:

INEGI (Mexico) (https://www.inegi.org.mx/programas/mortalidad/)

CONAGUA (Mexico) (https://smn.conagua.gob.mx/es/)

Code produced by Cohen, Francois and Dechezlepretre, Antoine.

Scales: daily and monthly rates

Unit(s) of Observation: Individual and municipality

Geographic Unit: Municipality

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