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Typhoid Fever, Water Quality, and Human Capital Formation

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ID4867093
AutoresBrian Beach (0000-0002-5917-2531, William & Mary), Joseph Ferrie, Joseph P Ferrie (0000-0002-7261-3610, Northwestern University), Martín Saavedra (0000-0003-1230-7168, Oberlin College), Werner Troesken (University of Pittsburgh)
Año2016
Volumen76
Número1
Páginas41-75
Fecha de publicación2016-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Journal of Economic History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-0507 • E-ISSN: 1471-6372
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0022050716000413
OpenAlexW1481224739
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas55
Referencias citadas22

New water purification technologies led to large mortality declines by helping eliminate typhoid fever and other waterborne diseases. We examine how this affected human capital formation using early-life typhoid fatality rates to proxy for water quality. We merge city-level data to individuals linked between the 1900 and 1940 Censuses. Eliminating early-life exposure to typhoid fever increased later-life earnings by one percent and educational attainment by one month. Instrumenting for typhoid fever using typhoid rates from cities that lie upstream produces results nine times larger. The increase in earnings from eliminating typhoid fever more than offset the cost of elimination

Business · Environmental health · Geography · Merge (version control) · Outbreak · Typhoid fever · Waterborne diseases · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact · Medicine · Virology · Water resources management and optimization

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Intervalo de citas2017 - 2026 (10)
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