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Congenital disorders are a principal cause of early mortality, long-term disabilities, impaired cognitive development and constitute a major challenge to families,communities, and health care systems alike. The origins of congenital disorders are not yet well understood with descriptive evidence from the fields of medicine and public health pointing towards the role of climate related factors. Leveraging detailed micro-data from Mexico, this study aims to provide the first causal evidence on the role of climatic shocks in affecting the onset of congenital disorders. For this purpose, we compiled a large dataset comprising about 19 million births from about 63,000 Mexican localities for the period 2008– 2021. Focusing on temperature shocks, our results
indicate that an increase in temperatures by 1°C, is related to an increase in congenital disorders by 10 percent (0.1 percentage points).
| Keyword | Education and Health |
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