Arbeitspapier
Pollution, Infectious Disease, and Mortality: Evidence from the 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic
This paper uses the 1918 influenza pandemic as a natural experiment to examine whether air pollution affects susceptibility to infectious disease. The empirical analysis combines the sharp timing of the pandemic with large cross-city differences in baseline pollution measures based on coal-fired electricity generating capacity for a sample 183 American cities. The findings suggest that air pollution exacerbated the impact of the pandemic. Proximity to World War I military bases and baseline city health conditions also contributed to pandemic severity. The effects of air pollution are quantitatively important. Had coal-fired capacity in above-median cities been reduced to the median level, 3,400-5,860 pandemic-related infant deaths and 15,575-23,686 pandemic-related all-age deaths would have been averted. These results highlight the complementarity between air pollution and infectious disease on health, and suggest that there may be large co-benefits associated with pollution abatement policies.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 9399
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: U.S.; Canada: 1913-
Economic History: Agriculture, Natural Resources, Environment, and Extractive Industries: U.S.; Canada: 1913-
Health and Economic Development
Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
Air Pollution; Water Pollution; Noise; Hazardous Waste; Solid Waste; Recycling
Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth
Environmental Economics: Government Policy
- Thema
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pollution
infectious disease
mortality
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Clay, Karen
Lewis, Joshua
Severnini, Edson R.
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2015
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Clay, Karen
- Lewis, Joshua
- Severnini, Edson R.
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2015
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