The U.S. tuberculosis movement pioneered many of the strategies of modern public health campaigns. Dedicated to eradicating a specific disease, it was spearheaded by voluntary associations and supported by the sale of Christmas seals. Although remarkable in its scope and intensity, the...

Using data on 25 major American cities for the period 1900-1940, we explore the effects of municipal-level public health efforts that were viewed as critical in the fight against food- and water-borne diseases. In addition to studying interventions such as treating sewage and setting strict...

This is a rejoinder to a comment written by Cutler and Miller on our recent paper, "Public Health Efforts and the Decline in Urban Mortality" (IZA DP No. 11773), which reanalyzes data used by Cutler and Miller to investigate the determinants of the urban mortality decline from 1900 to 1936. Two...

Im Zuge der Corona-Krise greifen die Unternehmen so stark auf Kurzarbeit zurück wie noch nie. Insgesamt gingen bis Ende April für mehr als 10 Millionen Beschäftigte Anzeigen zur Kurzarbeit bei der Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA) ein, im Mai kamen nochmals Anzeigen im Umfang von ca. 1 Million...