Coal Smoke and Mortality in an Early Industrial Economy
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 9705836 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Brian Beach (0000-0002-5917-2531, William & Mary), W Walker Hanlon (0000-0002-2753-1085, UCLA & NBER, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2018 |
| Volume | 128 |
| Fascículo | 615 |
| Páginas | 2652-2675 |
| Data de publicação | 2018-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | The Economic Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0013-0133 • E-ISSN: 1468-0297 |
| Editora | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/ecoj.12522 |
| OpenAlex | W2762633281 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 28 |
| Referências citadas | 49 |
Air pollution was severe in the nineteenth century, yet its health consequences are often overlooked due to a lack of pollution data. We offer a new approach for inferring local coal use levels based on local industrial structure and industry‐specific coal use intensity. This allows us to provide the first estimates of the mortality effects of British industrial coal use in 1851–60. Exploiting wind patterns for identification, we find that a one standard deviation increase in coal use raised infant mortality by 6–8% and that industrial coal use explains roughly one‐third of the urban mortality penalty observed during this period
Air pollution · Coal · Coal mining · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Infant mortality · Meteorology · Natural resource economics · Smoke · Waste management · Air Quality and Health Impacts · Climate Change and Health Impacts · Engineering · Environmental Science · Global Health Care Issues · Pollution
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Water infrastructure and health in U.S. cities
The historical impact of coal on cities
The impact of wildfire smoke exposure on excess mortality and later-life socioeconomic outcomes
The manufacturing comparative advantages of late-Victorian Britain
Nutrition, Crowding, and Disease Among Low‐income Households in Tokyo in 1930
The contribution of infrastructure investment to Britain's urban mortality decline, 1861-1900
London Fog
For Want of a Cup
The effect of “smoky” coal bans on chronic lung disease among older people in Ireland
From pandemic to endemic
Killer cities and industrious cities ? New data and evidence on 250 years of urban growth
Epidemics in Nineteenth-Century British Towns
Mortality decline by cause in urban and rural England and Wales, 1851–1910
Urban sanitation and the decline of mortality
The health costs of dirty energy
Environmental and socioeconomic determinants of neonatal mortality in a northern Italian city in the early nineteenth century
One Giant Leap
East-Side Story
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The Democratization of Longevity
British historical statistics
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Health and wealth
Agglomeration
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The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100
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Does the Effect of Pollution on Infant Mortality Differ Between Developing and Developed Countries? Evidence from Mexico City
The Determinants of Mortality
Typhoid Fever, Water Quality, and Human Capital Formation
The Big Smoke
The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100
| Obras citantes distintas | 28 |
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| Citações por ano | 3,5 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Velocidade de citação | current |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 26 |