Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/236326 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 14295
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
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 women. 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.
Subjects: 
birth outcomes
adaptation
climate
cisterns
water
JEL: 
Q54
Q58
Q25
I15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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