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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP14949
	DP14949 How the Other Half Died: Immigration and Mortality in US Cities
	Philipp Ager; James J Feigenbaum; Casper Worm Hansen; Huiren Tan
发表日期	2020-06-27
出版年	2020
语种	英语
摘要	Fears of immigrants as a threat to public health have a long and sordid history. At the turn of the 20th century, when millions of immigrants crowded into dense American cities, contemporaries blamed the high urban mortality penalty on the newest arrivals. Nativist sentiments eventually led to the implementation of restrictive quota acts in the 1920s, substantially curtailing immigration. We capture the "missing immigrants" induced by the quotas to estimate the effect of immigration on mortality. We find that cities with more missing immigrants experienced sharp declines in deaths from infectious diseases from the mid-1920s until the late 1930s. The blame for these negative mortality effects lies not with the immigrants, but on the living conditions they endured. We show that mortality declines were largest in cities where immigrants resided in the most crowded and squalid conditions and where public health resources were stretched the thinnest. Though immigrants did die from infectious diseases at higher rates than the US-born, the mortality decline we find is primarily driven by crowding not changes in population composition or contagion, as we show mortality improvements for both US- and foreign-born populations in more quota-affected cities.
主题	Economic History
关键词	Immigration Urban mortality Nativism Density
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp14949
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/543894
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Philipp Ager,James J Feigenbaum,Casper Worm Hansen,et al. DP14949 How the Other Half Died: Immigration and Mortality in US Cities. 2020.