Investment in water purification technologies led to large mortality declines by helping eradicate typhoid fever and …

Historically, improvements in the quality of municipal drinking water made important contributions to mortality decline …

Historically, improvements municipal drinking water quality contributed significantly to mortality decline in wealthy … to chlorinated water. On average, we find that the program led to a 37 to 48% decline in diarrheal mortality among …

response and mortality outcomes should be better than in 1918-20. We ask whether mortality from historical pandemics has any … predictive content for mortality in the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. We find a strong persistence in public health performance in … the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic. Places that performed poorly in terms of mortality in 1918 were more likely to …

describe regional patterns in the decline of urban infectious mortality from 1900 to 1948. We report three main results: First …, urban infectious mortality was higher in the South in every year from 1900 to 1948. Second, infectious mortality declined … later in southern cities than in cities in the other regions. Third, comparatively high infectious mortality in southern …

describe regional patterns in the decline of urban infectious mortality from 1900 to 1948. We report three main results: First …, urban infectious mortality was higher in the South in every year from 1900 to 1948. Second, infectious mortality declined … later in southern cities than in cities in the other regions. Third, comparatively high infectious mortality in southern …

response and mortality outcomes should be better than in 1918-20. We ask whether mortality from historical pandemics has any … predictive content for mortality in the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. We find a strong persistence in public health performance in … the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic. Places that performed poorly in terms of mortality in 1918 were more likely to …