Session 136: Demographic, Health and Economic Consequences of Weather Risk

Saturday, April 1 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM San Gabriel A Lobby Level

1.	The Effects of Air Pollution on Health and Health Spending: Evidence from Forest Fires  •  Seema Jayachandran, University of California, Berkeley and University of California, Los Angeles; Sarah Reber, University of California, Los Angeles

2.	The Mortality Impact of the August 2003 Heat Wave in France  •  Magali Barbieri, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED)

3.	Flood Exposure and Child Health in Bangladesh  •  Alison M. Buttenheim, University of California, Los Angeles

4.	Understanding Pareto Inefficient Intrahousehold Allocations  •  Richard Akresh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

5.	Sharing the Burden of Death: Implicit Family Insurance, Mortality Shocks, and Fertility and Child Health  •  Olumide Taiwo, Brown University

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