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London Fog : A Century of Pollution and Mortality, 1866-1965

Hanlon, W. Walker - 2018

This study provides new evidence on the impact of air pollution in London over the century from 1866-1965. To identify … weeks with elevated pollution levels I use new data tracking the timing of London's famous fog events, which trapped … exposure due to fog events accounted for at least one out of every 200 deaths in London during this century. I provide evidence …

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Temperature, Disease, and Death in London : Analyzing Weekly Data for the Century from 1866-1965

Hanlon, W. Walker - 2020

Using weekly mortality data for London spanning 1866-1965, we analyze the changing relationship between temperature and … the timing of the infant mortality decline in London …

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The Rise of the Engineer : Inventing the Professional Inventor During the Industrial Revolution

Hanlon, W. Walker - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Why was the Industrial Revolution successful at generating sustained growth? Some have argued that there was a fundamental change in the way that new technology was developed during this period, but evidence for this argument remains largely anecdotal. This paper provides direct quantitative...

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Analyzing the Agenda of the U.K. Parliament Over the Long Run

Hanlon, W. Walker - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This article develops a method for quantitatively tracking the agenda of the British Parliament--by which I mean the substantive topics on which Parliamentary debate was focused--from 1810-2005 using descriptions of 1.7 million Parliamentary debates from the Parliamentary Hansard. This provides...

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A Penny for Your Thoughts

Hanlon, W. Walker; Heblich, Stephan; Monte, Ferdinando; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

How do communication costs affect the production of new ideas and inventions? To answer this question, we study the introduction of the Uniform Penny Post in Great Britain in 1840. This reform replaced the previous system of expensive distance-based postage fees with a uniform low rate of one...

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Censorship, Family Planning, and the Historical Fertility Transition

Beach, Brian - 2019

The historical fertility transition is one of the most important events in economic history. This study provides new evidence on the role that ideas about family planning played in this transition. We begin by documenting a link between the famous Bradlaugh-Besant trial that took place in...

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Estimating the Recession-Mortality Relationship when Migration Matters

Arthi, Vellore - 2017

A large literature following Ruhm (2000) suggests that mortality falls during recessions and rises during booms. The panel-data approach used to generate these results assumes that either there is no substantial migration response to temporary changes in local economic conditions, or that any...

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Coal Smoke and the Costs of the Industrial Revolution

Hanlon, W. Walker - 2016

While the Industrial Revolution brought economic growth, there is a long debate in economics over the costs of the pollution externalities that accompanied early industrialization. To help settle this debate, this paper introduces a new theoretically-grounded strategy for estimating the impact...

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Pollution and Mortality in the 19th Century

Hanlon, W. Walker - 2015

Mortality was extremely high in the industrial cities of the 19th century, but little is known about the role played by pollution in generating this pattern, due largely to a lack of direct pollution measures. I overcome this problem by combining data on the local composition of industries in...

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Temporary Shocks and Persistent Effects in the Urban System : Evidence from British Cities after the U.S. Civil War

Hanlon, W. Walker - 2014

Urban economies are often heavily reliant on a small number of dominant industries, leaving them vulnerable to negative industry-specific shocks. This paper analyzes the long-run impacts of one such event: the large, temporary, and industry-specific shock to the British cotton textile industry...

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