Add to ORKGNew 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
Historically, improvements in municipal water quality led to substantial mortality decline in today’...
Background Typhoid fever remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality in low and middle-income s...
The provision of clean water is mentioned as an important factor in many studies dealing with the dé...
Investments in water and sanitation systems are believed to have led to the decline in typhoid fever...
AbstractObjectiveIn this study, the factors that induced a decrease in the incidence of typhoid feve...
American drinking water supplies are among the safest in the world. The disinfection of water has pl...
Clean water provision is considered crucial towards eradicating water-borne diseases. However, the b...
Typhoid fever is endemic in many developing countries. In the early 20th century, newly industrializ...
The malign contribution of northern industrial cities to the stagnation of national life expectancy ...
Typhoid fever is endemic in many developing countries. In the early 20th century, newly industrializ...
In the late 19th Century, cities in Western Europe and the United States suffered from high levels o...
BACKGROUND:Typhoid fever remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality in low and middle-income s...
Is your water supply safe? -- Water-borne typhoid fever outbreak in Herkimer, N.Y. -- Typhoid vaccin...
Water, essential for the biology of living organisms, is also important for agriculture, for the org...
The Tackling Typhoid supplement shows that typhoid fever continues to be a problem globally despite ...
Historically, improvements in municipal water quality led to substantial mortality decline in today’...
Background Typhoid fever remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality in low and middle-income s...
The provision of clean water is mentioned as an important factor in many studies dealing with the dé...
Investments in water and sanitation systems are believed to have led to the decline in typhoid fever...
AbstractObjectiveIn this study, the factors that induced a decrease in the incidence of typhoid feve...
American drinking water supplies are among the safest in the world. The disinfection of water has pl...
Clean water provision is considered crucial towards eradicating water-borne diseases. However, the b...
Typhoid fever is endemic in many developing countries. In the early 20th century, newly industrializ...
The malign contribution of northern industrial cities to the stagnation of national life expectancy ...
Typhoid fever is endemic in many developing countries. In the early 20th century, newly industrializ...
In the late 19th Century, cities in Western Europe and the United States suffered from high levels o...
BACKGROUND:Typhoid fever remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality in low and middle-income s...
Is your water supply safe? -- Water-borne typhoid fever outbreak in Herkimer, N.Y. -- Typhoid vaccin...
Water, essential for the biology of living organisms, is also important for agriculture, for the org...
The Tackling Typhoid supplement shows that typhoid fever continues to be a problem globally despite ...
Historically, improvements in municipal water quality led to substantial mortality decline in today’...
Background Typhoid fever remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality in low and middle-income s...
The provision of clean water is mentioned as an important factor in many studies dealing with the dé...