Clay, Karen; Troesken, Werner; Haines, Michael - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 96 (2014) 3, pp. 458-470
This paper examines the effect of waterborne lead exposure on infant mortality in American cities over the period 1900 … lead exposure, identifies the effects of lead on infant mortality. In 1900, a decline in exposure equivalent to an increase … in pH from 6.675 (25th percentile) to 7.3 (50th percentile) in cities with lead-only pipes would have been associated …