Watersheds in Child Mortality: The Role of Effective Water and Sewerage Infrastructure, 1880–1920

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Chain effects of clean water: The Mills–Reincke phenomenon in early 20th-century Japan

“…4 By expanding strategy to capture the mechanisms responsible for the appearance of the phenomenon, we find that the overall impacts of clean water were still considered to be substantial in pre-war Japan. 5 The results of this study thus support the evidence provided by previous studies of the important role of clean-water technology (e.g., Alsan and Goldin 2019).…”

“…They also found a weak but negative correlation between the water supply and the waterborne mortalities. Alsan and Goldin (2019) and Kesztenbaum and Rosenthal (2017) showed the importance of sewers to reduce the mortality rate in Massachusetts and Paris, respectively. time.…”

Comment on 'Pubic Health Efforts and the Decline in Urban Mortality'

“…Overall, correcting the unambiguous mistakes in our earlier paper yields the finding that municipal water disinfection explains 38% of the mortality decline in our sample cities and study yearsa result not dramatically different from the calculation of 41% noted above (Cutler and Miller, 2016). More generally, based on the findings of other papers studying municipal water and sanitation interventions in similar historical contexts, we believe that these technologies have been quite important for historical urban mortality decline (Alsan and Goldin, 2018, Cain and Rotella, 2001, Ferrie and Troesken, 2008, Ketzenbaum and Rosenthal, 2014, Knutsson, 2018, Ogasawara et al, 2015. Cutler and Miller (2005).…”

Introduction to the Handbook on Green Growth

“…Air pollution in China in 1995 was estimated to have caused damage equivalent to 9 per cent of GDP (Matus et al, 2012). Similarly, concerns about the impacts of other forms of pollution, particularly related to water and sewage, imposed great burdens on the population's health and, consequently, the economy (Hassan, 1985;Luckin, 2000;Melosi, 2000;Alsan and Goldin, 2019).…”