Climate adaptation policies and infant healthevidence from a water policy in Brazil

Resumo

This paper studies how in utero exposure to a large-scale climate adaptation program affects birth outcomes. The program built around one million cisterns in Brazil’s poorest and driest region to promote small-scale decentralized rainfall harvesting. Access to cisterns during early pregnancy increased birth weight, particularly for more educated mothers. Data suggest that more educated women complied more with the program’s water disinfection training, highlighting that even simple, low-cost technologies require final users’ compliance (“the last mile”) to be effective. In the context of growing water scarcity, adaptation policies can foster neonatal health and thus have positive long-run implications.

Ficha do documento

Tipo

Outro

Ano

2023

Instituição

Journal of Public Economics

Fonte

Repositório da FGV

Idioma

Inglês

Acesso

Não informado

DOI

10.1016/j.jpubeco.2023.104835

Identificador

oai:repositorio.fgv.br:10438/33994

Temas

Administração Pública

Palavras-chave

ClimateAdaptationBirth outcomesCisternsWaterAdministração pública