Replication Data and Code for "The Phenomenon of Summer Diarrhea and its Waning, 1910-1930"

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) D. Mark Anderson, Montana State University; Daniel I. Rees, University of Colorado Denver; Tianyi Wang, University of Pittsburgh

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Read Me File for Anderson, Rees, and Wang (2020).docx application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document 15.5 KB 06/09/2020 08:21:AM
annual_diarrhea_mortality.dta application/x-stata 6.6 KB 06/03/2020 01:23:PM
diarrhea_city_monthly.dta application/x-stata 2.3 MB 06/03/2020 12:06:PM
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predicted values had no cities filtered water 6_8_2020.dta application/x-stata 27.3 KB 06/09/2020 08:20:AM

Project Citation: 

Anderson, D. Mark, Rees, Daniel I., and Wang, Tianyi. Replication Data and Code for “The Phenomenon of Summer Diarrhea and its Waning, 1910-1930.” Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2020-06-09. https://doi.org/10.3886/E119703V1

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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 eventually controlled through public health efforts at the municipal level.  Using data from 26 major American cities for the period 1910-1930, we document the phenomenon of summer diarrhea and explore its dissipation.  We find that water filtration is associated with a 15 percent reduction in diarrheal mortality among children under the age of two during the non-summer months, but does not seem to have had an effect on diarrheal mortality during the summer.  In general, we find little evidence to suggest that public health interventions undertaken at the municipal level contributed to the dissipation of summer diarrhea.   

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Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms JEL code: I10; JEL code: I18; JEL code: N3; JEL code: Q54
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage United States
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 1910 – 1930


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