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Autor:
Werner Troesken
The United States is among the wealthiest nations in the world. But that wealth hasn't translated to a higher life expectancy, an area where the United States still ranks thirty-eighth—behind Cuba, Chile, Costa Rica, and Greece, among many others.
Autor:
Werner Troesken
The history of a long-running environmental catastrophe chronicles the harmful effects of lead pipes and their continued use despite evidence that they pose a significant health risk.In The Great Lead Water Pipe Disaster, Werner Troesken looks at a l
Autor:
Werner Troesken
A qualitative and quantitative analysis of the effect of public water and sewer systems on African American life expectancy in the Jim Crow era.Why, at the peak of the Jim Crow era early in the twentieth century, did life expectancy for African Ameri
Publikováno v:
The Journal of Economic History. 79:32-62
Focusing on the first half of the twentieth century, we explore the rise and fall of pellagra (a disease caused by inadequate niacin consumption) in the American South. We first consider the hypothesis that the South’s monoculture in cotton undermi
This paper investigates the effect of a large negative agricultural shock, the boll weevil, on racial income gaps in the first half of the twentieth century. We draw on complete count census data to generate a new large linked sample of Black and w
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::dee42b1919d075f9de5710d38d996748
https://doi.org/10.3386/w27101
https://doi.org/10.3386/w27101
Publikováno v:
Journal of Development Economics. 129:29-46
How does violence against a group affect political participation? In theory, the targeted group may either become politically mobilized or may become discouraged and withdraw from political participation. To address this question, we assess the impac
Publikováno v:
Explorations in Economic History. 81:101402
What are the benefits of moving from intermittent water delivery (which limits user access to less than 24 h per day) to constant service? To address this question, we study the transition from intermittent to constant water supply in London. Between
Autor:
Randall Walsh, Werner Troesken
This paper develops and tests a simple model to explain the origins of municipal segregation ordinances. Passed by cities between 1909 and 1917, these ordinances prohibited members of the majority racial group on a given city block from selling or re
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https://doi.org/10.3386/w23691
https://doi.org/10.3386/w23691
Autor:
Werner Troesken, John E. Murray
Publikováno v:
The Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 44:181-208
Econometric analysis of a hitherto unused 1896 survey of African-American families in American cities, mostly located in the South, reveals the classic added worker effect: Longer intervals of husbands' unemployment—not counting work missed on acco