health efforts that were viewed as critical in the fight against food- and water-borne diseases. In addition to studying … to the observed declines in total and infant mortality …

health efforts that were viewed as critical in the fight against food- and water-borne diseases. In addition to studying … to the observed declines in total and infant mortality …

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 main results emerge from our reanalysis of their data: (1 …

health efforts that were viewed as critical in the fight against food- and water-borne diseases. In addition to studying … to the observed declines in total and infant mortality …

This is a rejoinder to a comment by Profs. Cutler and Miller (CM) on a recent paper of ours, “Public Health Efforts and … the Decline in Urban Mortality” (NBER WP No. 25027), in which we examine the effect of water filtration on infant and … total mortality using the same data as were used by CM (2005). Two main results emerge from our reanalysis of the CM data …