to the observed declines in total and infant mortality …

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 …) correcting infant mortality counts reduces the estimated effect of filtration on infant mortality by two-thirds, from -43 log …

to the observed declines in total and infant mortality …

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 …: (1) correcting their infant mortality counts reduces the estimated effect of filtration by two-thirds, from -43 log …