Session 4: Climate and health vulnerability: evidence and bias

Health and Environment · Wed 4 Nov 2026 · 2h

Teaching›Health and Environment›Course material 2026/27›Session 4

Slides

The slides will be linked here before the session. They are in the student area, so you will be asked for the module password 🔒.

Readings

Read the core readings before the session. The further readings are optional.

Core

Dominici F, Zigler C (2017). Best practices for gauging evidence of causality in air pollution epidemiology. American Journal of Epidemiology, 186(12), 1303–1309.

Chen Y, Ebenstein A, Greenstone M, Li H (2013). Evidence on the impact of sustained exposure to air pollution on life expectancy from China’s Huai River policy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110(32), 12936–12941.

Further

Currie J, Graff Zivin J, Mullins J, Neidell M (2014). What do we know about short- and long-term effects of early-life exposure to pollution? Annual Review of Resource Economics, 6, 217–247.

Gasparrini A, Guo Y, Hashizume M, et al. (2015). Mortality risk attributable to high and low ambient temperature: a multicountry observational study. The Lancet, 386(9991), 369–375.

Deschênes O, Greenstone M (2011). Climate change, mortality, and adaptation: evidence from annual fluctuations in weather in the US. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 3(4), 152–185.