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Title: Upswing in Industrial Activity and Infant Mortality during Late 19th Century US

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2020

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Abstract: This paper aims to assess the effects of industrial pollution on infant mortality between the years 1850-1940 using full count decennial censuses. In this period, US economy experienced a tremendous rise in industrial activity with significant variation among different counties in absorbing manufacturing industries, which is used as a proxy for variation in space-time industrial pollution. To compensate for lack of data, measures of gender ratio are instrumented for infant mortality since male embryos are more vulnerable to external stressors like pollution during prenatal development. Consistent significant results in different scenarios asserts that infants and more specifically male infants had paid the price of pollution during upswing in industrial growth at the dawn of the 20th century. Contemporary datasets are used to verify the validity of the proxies and the instruments.

Url: https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/105093/1/MPRA_paper_105093.pdf

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Authors: Tavassoli, Nahid; Noghanibehambari, Hamid; Noghani, Farzaneh; Toranji, Mostafa

Periodical (Full): Journal of Environments

Issue: 1

Volume: 6

Pages: 1-13

Data Collections: IPUMS NHGIS

Topics: Fertility and Mortality, Labor Force and Occupational Structure

Countries: United States