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Climate Change Adaptation: Insurance and Households Location: B003 Session Chair: James Sanchirico, University of California, Davis | |
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When the Roof Reflects: Heat, Learning, and Adaptation in Early Childhood Settings 1: St.Stephen's College, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi,India; 2: Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi, India; 3: Delhi School of Economics, Delhi, India Cool roof technologies, especially cool roof paint, offer a low-cost, easily scalable, and low-emission alternative to energy-intensive air-conditioning for reducing heat exposure in buildings - an increasingly urgent need in developing countries facing rising temperatures due to climate change. We evaluate the effectiveness of a cool roof intervention - white reflective paint applied to the roofs of government pre-schools (anganwadis) in Thiruvananthapuram district of the Indian state of Kerala—using a randomized controlled trial. The cool roof paint reduces indoor temperatures in treated pre-schools by approximately 1.3 degree Celsius. Staff in treatment pre-schools report significantly lower thermal discomfort. We also find meaningful improvements in children’s cognitive performance, amounting to roughly 6.4% of the baseline mean. The intervention has no detectable effect on children’s attendance. Overall, our findings demonstrate that cool roofs can serve as a practical and scalable adaptation strategy to mitigate heat stress in low-resource educational settings. | |