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DOI10.3386/w20279
来源IDWorking Paper 20279
Typhoid Fever, Water Quality, and Human Capital Formation
Brian Beach; Joseph Ferrie; Martin Saavedra; Werner Troesken
发表日期2014-07-10
出版年2014
语种英语
摘要Investment in water purification technologies led to large mortality declines by helping eradicate typhoid fever and other waterborne diseases. This paper seeks to understand how these technologies affected human capital formation. We use typhoid fatality rates during early life as a proxy for water quality. To carry out the analysis, city-level data are merged with a unique dataset linking individuals between the 1900 and 1940 censuses. Parametric and semi-parametric estimates suggest that eradicating early-life exposure to typhoid fever would have increased earnings in later life by 1% and increased educational attainment by one month. Instrumenting for typhoid fever using the typhoid rates from cities that lie upstream produces similar results. A simple cost-benefit analysis indicates that the increase in earnings from eradicating typhoid fever was more than sufficient to offset the costs of eradication.
主题Health, Education, and Welfare ; Labor Economics ; History
URLhttps://www.nber.org/papers/w20279
来源智库National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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条目标识符http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/577953
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Brian Beach,Joseph Ferrie,Martin Saavedra,et al. Typhoid Fever, Water Quality, and Human Capital Formation. 2014.
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