Water Improvement and Health: Historical Evidence on the Effect of Filtering Water on Urban Mortality
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Keywords
Water; Piped water; Filtered water; Infant Mortality; Mortality; Public Health;
All these keywords.JEL classification:
- I15 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Economic Development
- I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
- J11 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts
- N33 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy - - - Europe: Pre-1913
- Q53 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Air Pollution; Water Pollution; Noise; Hazardous Waste; Solid Waste; Recycling
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2017-04-30 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-HEA-2017-04-30 (Health Economics)
- NEP-HIS-2017-04-30 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
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