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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w21635 |
来源ID | Working Paper 21635 |
Pollution, Infectious Disease, and Mortality: Evidence from the 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic | |
Karen Clay; Joshua Lewis; Edson Severnini | |
发表日期 | 2015-10-12 |
出版年 | 2015 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | The 1918 Influenza Pandemic killed millions worldwide and hundreds of thousands in the United States. This paper studies the impact of air pollution on pandemic mortality. The analysis combines a panel dataset on infant and all-age mortality with a novel measure of air pollution based on the burning of coal in a large sample of U.S. cities. We estimate that air pollution contributed significantly to pandemic mortality. Cities that used more coal experienced tens of thousands of excess deaths in 1918 relative to cities that used less coal with similar pre-pandemic socioeconomic conditions and baseline health. Factors related to poverty, public health, and the timing of onset also affected pandemic mortality. The findings support recent medical evidence on the link between air pollution and influenza infection, and suggest that poor air quality was an important cause of mortality during the pandemic. |
主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; History ; Labor and Health History ; Other History ; Environmental and Resource Economics ; Energy ; Environment |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w21635 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
引用统计 | |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/579309 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Karen Clay,Joshua Lewis,Edson Severnini. Pollution, Infectious Disease, and Mortality: Evidence from the 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic. 2015. |
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