Climate change and child health: A Nigerian perspective

Eduard van der Merwe, Eleni Yitbarek () and Matthew Clance

No 871, Working Papers from Economic Research Southern Africa

Abstract: The detrimental effect of climate change on health is becoming an essential topic of economic research and policymaking. The negative impact of rising temperatures and extreme weather events on children’s health outcomes and their human capital is especially concerning. This study investigates the effects of a changing climate, in terms of changes in the monthly […]

Keywords: climate change; food security; Spatial Models (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C10 C11 C52 C55 E31 I12 I15 Q54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-01-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-agr, nep-dev and nep-env
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
https://econrsa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/working_paper_871.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Working Paper: Climate Change and Child Health: A Nigerian Perspective (2022)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:rza:wpaper:871

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from Economic Research Southern Africa Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Maggi Sigg ().