The health effects of weather and pollution: implications for climate change
Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)
Abstract: This paper comprehensively assesses the joint effects of extreme weather conditions and pollution shocks on population health. We merge German censuses of hospital admissions and death records for 1999 to 2008 with rich weather and pollution data from more than 2,000 ambient monitors on a daily county level basis. Extreme heat significantly increases hospitalizations and deaths.