Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/272644 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 16017
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Climate change poses a significant threat to the development of young children, but its impacts are not well known because of data and methodological limitations. Using a unique panel study in disadvantaged rural communities, we find that exposures to low temperatures undermine subsequent cognitive development before age 5, and reduce caregiver-child interactions and material investments. Results do not support income, health and temporary disruption in cognitive performance as potential channels. By undermining children's home environment, climate change may widen socioeconomic inequalities across households by their capacity to adapt, which is severely limited among disadvantaged households.
Subjects: 
early childhood
cognitive skills
home environment
temperature
climate change
China
JEL: 
I14
I18
J13
P25
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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