| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w26489 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 26489 |
| Water Purification Efforts and the Black-White Infant Mortality Gap, 1906-1938 | |
| D. Mark Anderson; Kerwin Kofi Charles; Daniel I. Rees; Tianyi Wang | |
| 发表日期 | 2019-11-25 |
| 出版年 | 2019 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | According to Troesken (2004), efforts to purify municipal water supplies at the turn of the 20th century dramatically improved the relative health of blacks. There is, however, little empirical evidence to support the Troesken hypothesis. Using city-level data published by the U.S. Bureau of the Census for the period 1906-1938, we explore the relationship between water purification efforts and the black-white infant mortality gap. Our results suggest that, while water filtration was effective across the board, adding chlorine to the water supply reduced mortality only among black infants. Specifically, chlorination is associated with an 11 percent reduction in black infant mortality and a 13 percent reduction in the black-white infant mortality gap. We also find that chlorination led to a substantial reduction in the black-white diarrhea mortality gap among children under the age of 2, although this estimate is measured with less precision. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; History ; Labor and Health History |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w26489 |
| 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/584162 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | D. Mark Anderson,Kerwin Kofi Charles,Daniel I. Rees,et al. Water Purification Efforts and the Black-White Infant Mortality Gap, 1906-1938. 2019. |
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