Lead exposure and violent crime in the early twentieth century
| Autor: | Christopher Muller, James J. Feigenbaum |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
Economics and Econometrics
History Injury control Accident prevention education Poison control Violent crime 03 medical and health sciences History and Philosophy of Specific Fields 0302 clinical medicine Lead (geology) Homicide 0502 economics and business Development economics Water pipe Econometrics 030212 general & internal medicine 050207 economics Violence Research Peace History of Social Sciences 05 social sciences Urban economic history Pollution Justice and Strong Institutions Geography Lead Applied Economics Lead exposure Crime |
| Zdroj: | Feigenbaum, JJ; & Muller, C. (2016). Lead exposure and violent crime in the early twentieth century. Explorations in Economic History, 62, 51-86. doi: 10.1016/j.eeh.2016.03.002. UC Berkeley: Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/3fj2n1sm |
| ISSN: | 0014-4983 |
| Popis: | © 2016 Elsevier Inc. In the second half of the nineteenth century, many American cities built water systems using lead or iron service pipes. Municipal water systems generated significant public health improvements, but these improvements may have been partially offset by the damaging effects of lead exposure through lead water pipes. We study the effect of cities' use of lead pipes on homicide between 1921 and 1936. Lead water pipes exposed entire city populations to much higher doses of lead than have previously been studied in relation to crime. Our estimates suggest that cities' use of lead service pipes considerably increased city-level homicide rates. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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