HYBRID EVENT

How Hot is too Hot and How Cold is too Cold? Estimating County-Level Relationships between Temperature and Mortality in California Counties

Guest: Eugenio Paglino (University of Pennsylvania)
Department of Digital and Computational Demography, October 18, 2023

Hybrid Seminar Talk, October 18 from 11am to 12pm (CEST)

Eugenio Paglino of the University of Pennsylvania will talk about the relationship between temperature and mortality, especially its geographic variability.

Abstract

The relationship between temperature and mortality and particularly its geographical variability remains an understudied topic in demography and epidemiology. While many studies have investigated excess mortality during episodes of extreme heat, less attention has been devoted to understanding how mortality responds to temperatures between the extremes. Even fewer studies investigate how the relationship between temperature and mortality varies geographically and which factors explain this variability. This study aims to fill this gap starting with California counties, with the goal of extending the analysis to all counties in the United States.

About

Eugenio is a fourth-year PhD student in Demography at the University of Pennsylvania. He holds a BSc and a MSc in Economics and Social Sciences from Bocconi University. He has previously worked as a research assistant at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Insititute and at the Dondena Centre (Bocconi University). His research broadly focuses on the impact of climate change on mortality and migration, with an interest in applications of Bayesian statistics to the modelling of demographic quantities.

Register to attend

Would you like to participate in the Online Seminar Talk? You are very welcome. Please register by sending an email to office-zagheni@demogr.mpg.de.