Early-Life Lead Exposure and Male Longevity: Evidence from Historical Municipal Water Systems [0.03%]
基于历史城市供水系统的铅暴露与男性寿命：来自历史城市供水系统的证据
Jason Fletcher,Hamid Noghanibehambari
Jason Fletcher
Several research strands document the life-cycle impacts of lead exposure during early life. Yet little is known about the long-run effects of lead exposure during early life on old-age mortality outcomes. In this study, we employ Social Se...
Balancing economic stress: The role of rural-urban migration in nineteenth-century East Belgium [0.03%]
缓解经济压力：19世纪东比利时城乡迁移的作用
George C Alter,Michel Oris
George C Alter
In this paper we propose an integrated view of both the rural and the urban sides of migration in 19th century East Belgium. We study two rural areas, Ardennes and the Pays de Herve, with diverging agrarian structures and pathways to modern...
The mortality risk of being overweight in the twentieth century: Evidence from two cohorts of New Zealand men [0.03%]
20世纪新西兰男性的体重与死亡率关系：来自两个队列的证据
Kris Inwood,Les Oxley,Evan Roberts
Kris Inwood
How have health and social mortality risks changed over time? Evidence from pre-1945 cohorts is sparse, mostly from the United States, and evidence is mixed on long-term changes in the risk of being overweight. We develop a dataset of men e...
Breathing new life into death certificates: Extracting handwritten cause of death in the LIFE-M project [0.03%]
让死亡证明重获新生：LIFE-M项目中手写死因提取研究
Martha J Bailey,Susan H Leonard,Joseph Price et al.
Martha J Bailey et al.
The demographic and epidemiological transitions of the past 200 years are well documented at an aggregate level. Understanding differences in individual and group risks for mortality during these transitions requires linkage between demogra...
Record Linkage For Character-Based Surnames: Evidence from Chinese Exclusion [0.03%]
基于字符姓氏的记录链接：来自中国排挤的证据
Hannah M Postel
Hannah M Postel
This paper proposes a novel pre-processing technique to improve record linkage for historical Chinese populations. Current matching approaches are relatively ineffective due to Chinese-specific naming conventions and enumeration errors. Thi...
D Mark Anderson,Daniel I Rees,Tianyi Wang
D Mark Anderson
During the first two decades of the 20th century, diarrheal deaths among American infants and children surged every summer. Although we still do not know what pathogen (or pathogens) caused this phenomenon, the consensus view is that it was...
Disease, downturns, and wellbeing: Economic history and the long-run impacts of COVID-19 [0.03%]
疾病、经济低迷与福利：经济史视角下的新冠肺炎疫情的长期影响
Vellore Arthi,John Parman
Vellore Arthi
How might COVID-19 affect human capital and wellbeing in the long run? The COVID-19 pandemic has already imposed a heavy human cost-taken together, this public health crisis and its attendant economic downturn appear poised to dwarf the sco...
Beyond Black and White: Color and Mortality in Post Reconstruction Era North Carolina [0.03%]
黑白之外：重建时期后的北卡罗来纳州的颜色与死亡率
Tiffany L Green,Tod G Hamilton
Tiffany L Green
A growing empirical literature in economics and sociology documents the existence of differences in social and economic outcomes between mixed-race blacks and other blacks . However, few researchers have considered whether the advantages as...
Military Service and Economic Mobility: Evidence from the American Civil War [0.03%]
军事服务与经济流动性：美国南北战争的证据
Chulhee Lee
Chulhee Lee
How did geographic and occupational mobility after the Civil War differ between Union Army veterans and nonveterans? By 1880, Union veterans were more likely to migrate to a different state or region than nonveterans. The higher geographic ...