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Typhoid Fever, Water Quality, and Human Capital Formation
BRIAN BEACH, JOSEPH FERRIE, MARTIN SAAVEDRA, AND WERNER TROESKEN
DSalmonella
typhi
The Journal of Economic History
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Typhoid Fever, Water Quality, Human Capital Formation
Living and Dying with Typhoid
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Typhoid Fever, Water Quality, Human Capital Formation
Typhoid as an Indicator of Water Quality
(Engineering News
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1
Typhoid Fever, Water Quality, Human Capital Formation
FIGURE 1
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General Statistics of Cities
Mortality Statistics
Typhoid Fever, Water Quality, Human Capital Formation
α β ε+ + +ln ypyy d Fα β= α ilteFF r c+ ity FEs year FEs( )Typhoiyy d s yea ,ijd ijrr ij
TyphoidijFilterij
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TABLE 1
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Transmission of Typhoid Fever through Milk
TABLE 2
1 1
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4
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Linking Individuals between the 1900 and 1940 Censuses
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Annual City-Level Typhoid Data
Typhoid Fever, Water Q
uality, Hum
an Capital Form
ation
Erie
Troy
Lynn
Utica
Omaha
Toledo
Dayton
Albany
Newark
Camden
Duluth
Lowell
Boston
Denver
Memphis
Reading
Buffalo
Hoboken
St Paul
Detroit
Chicago
Atlanta
Oakland
Richmond
Syracuse
New York
Portland
Hartford
Milwaukee
Nashville
Allegheny
Cleveland
Rochester
Baltimore
New Haven
Charleston
Pittsburgh
Cincinnati
Louisville
Evansville
Wilmington
Washington
Saint Louis
Minneapolis
New Orleans
Los Angeles
San Francisco
FIGURE 2
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FIGURE 3
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Ordinary Least Square (OLS) Results
α β γ +y Tα β= α yphoiTT d bγ+γ l k birthctt ity FEs[ ]blackijk jkd i
ε+ + +birth year FEs birthott rderdd FEs ,i
i j k
j k
TABLE 3
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1
1
1
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TABLE 4
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OLS Robustness Checks
TABLE 5
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4–.
002
0.0
02
–8 –4 0 4 8Years since birth
Education
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06–.
0004
–.00
020
.000
2.0
004
–8 –4 0 4 8Years since birth
ln(Income)
FIGURE 4
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Semi-Parametric Results
TABLE 6
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†
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α β γ+y α=α bββ l k b h d[ ]black [ ]birthott rderddjk jk jkk jkrε+ + +birthct ity FEs birth year FEs .jk
blackjkj k birth orderjk
j kf(Typhoid
Two-Stage Least Squares Results
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9.4
9.5
9.6
9.7
Yea
rs o
f sch
oolin
g
0 50 100 150 200Average typhold rate during early childhood
Average typhold rate during early childhood
7.15
7.2
7.25
7.3
In(I
ncom
e)
0 50 100 150 200
FIGURE 5
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TABLE 7
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TABLE 8
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APPENDIX TABLE 1
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Appendix
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Labour Economics
Pasteurization of Milk
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Demography
Explorations in Economic History
American Economic Review
Demography
Canadian Journal of Economics
Typhoid Fever and Typhus Fever
Demography
American Journal of Public Health
The American CityEngineering News
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Typhoid Fever, Water Quality, Human Capital Formation
Water and Public Health: The Relative Purity of Waters from Different Sources
Social Science History
Annales de Démographie Historique
The Lancet A History of Interest Rates
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