Session 86:
Health and Mortality in Historical Perspective
Chair: Dora L. Costa, University of California, Los Angeles
Discussant: Evan Roberts, University of Minnesota
Discussant: Neil Cummins, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
The Impact of Industrial Pollution on City Growth: Lessons from the "Dark Satanic Mills" Walker Hanlon, University of California, Los Angeles
Watersheds in Infant Mortality: Massachusetts, 1880 to 1915 Marcella Alsan, Stanford University ; Claudia Goldin, Harvard University
Benefits and Costs of Electricity in Pre-Clean Air Act United States Karen Clay, Carnegie Mellon University ; Joshua Lewis, Université de Montréal ; Edson Severnini, Carnegie Mellon University
Infant Mortality Decline in Bavaria: Sanitary Improvement and Inequality in Munich, 1825-1909 John Brown, Clark University ; Timothy Guinnane, Yale University
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