Cycles and trends of mortality in 18 large American cities, 1871–1900
References (41)
The General Death-Rate of Large American Cities, 1871–1904
Quarterly Publications of the American Statistical Association
(1906)The Social Rate of Return on Investment in Public Health, 1880–1910
Journal of Economic History
(1974)- et al.
Urban French Mortality in the Nineteenth Century
Population Studies
(1978) The Mathematical Theory of Epidemics
(1957)- et al.
Measuring Business Cycles
(1946) Municipal Sanitation in the United States
(1900)- et al.
New Estimates of Fertility and Population in the United States
(1963) - et al.
Public Health Measures and Mortality in U.S. Cities in the Late Nineteenth Century
Human Ecology
(1978) Population Movement
The Bacteriological Era
The Bacteriological Era
History of Public Health in New York City, 1866–1966
Population Issues in American Economic History: A Survey and Critique
Mortality in Nineteenth Century America: Estimates from New York and Pennsylvania Census Data, 1865 and 1900
Demography
A Model Life Table System for the United States, 1850–1910
The Transformation of the American Economy, 1865–1914
Mortality in Rural America, 1870–1920: Estimates and Conjectures
Explorations in Economic History
American Mortality Progress during the Last Half Century
Public Health Administration and the Natural History of Disease in Baltimore, Maryland, 1797–1920
Migration and Business Cycles
Elements of Econometrics
Cited by (51)
Economic growth and health progress in England and Wales: 160 years of a changing relation
2012, Social Science and MedicineCitation Excerpt :One of Brenner's critics was Jay Winter (1983), who found infant mortality in Britain falling quickly during recessions in 1920–1950, particularly in Northumberland in the early 1930s, Glamorgan in the mid-1930s and Durham in the late 1930s, despite high levels of unemployment in these areas. Since the 1970s, using a variety of statistical methods, the tendency of mortality to increase in expansions and decrease in recessions (i.e., its procyclical fluctuation) has been found in numerous countries and periods (Abdala, Geldstein, & Mychaszula, 2000; Adams, 1981; Chay & Greenstone, 2003; Dehejia & Lleras-Muney, 2004; Gerdtham & Ruhm, 2006; Gonzalez & Quast, 2010; Graham, Chang, & Evans, 1992; Higgs, 1979; Neumayer, 2004; Ruhm, 2000, 2007; Tapia Granados, 2005a, 2008; Tapia Granados & Diez Roux, 2009) Though findings on Sweden are controversial (Gerdtham & Johannesson, 2005; Svensson, 2007, 2010; Tapia Granados & Ionides, 2008, 2011), a consensus seems to be emerging on the procyclical oscillation of mortality as a statistical regularity. In the early and mid decades of the 20th century the prevailing view was that progress in medical treatments had been the main driver of the long-term decline in mortality rates.
The reversal of the relation between economic growth and health progress: Sweden in the 19th and 20th centuries
2008, Journal of Health EconomicsHealth, information, and migration: Geographic mobility of union army veterans, 1860-1880
2008, Journal of Economic HistoryHow the Other Half Died: Immigration and Mortality in U.S. Cities
2024, Review of Economic StudiesFréchet single index models for object response regression
2023, Electronic Journal of Statistics
- ∗
Requests for reprints and all correspondence should be sent to Robert Higgs, Department of Economics DK-30, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195.