| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w23730 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 23730 |
| The Rise and Fall of Pellagra in the American South | |
| Karen Clay; Ethan Schmick; Werner Troesken | |
| 发表日期 | 2017-08-28 |
| 出版年 | 2017 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We explore the rise and fall of pellagra, a disease caused by inadequate niacin consumption, in the American South, focusing on the first half of the twentieth century. We first consider the hypothesis that the South’s monoculture in cotton undermined nutrition by displacing local food production. Consistent with this hypothesis, a difference-in-differences estimation shows that after the arrival of the boll weevil, food production in affected counties rose while cotton production and pellagra rates fell. The results also suggest that after 1937 improved medical understanding and state fortification laws helped eliminate pellagra. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; History ; Labor and Health History ; Other History ; Environmental and Resource Economics ; Agriculture |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w23730 |
| 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/581403 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Karen Clay,Ethan Schmick,Werner Troesken. The Rise and Fall of Pellagra in the American South. 2017. |
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| 文件名称/大小 | 资源类型 | 版本类型 | 开放类型 | 使用许可 | ||
| w23730.pdf（690KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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