| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w20279 |
| 来源ID | Working 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 |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w20279 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/577953 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Brian Beach,Joseph Ferrie,Martin Saavedra,et al. Typhoid Fever, Water Quality, and Human Capital Formation. 2014. |
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