全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Pollution, Infectious Disease, and Mortality: Evidence from the 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic

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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)
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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/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.