Recessions, Mortality, and Migration Bias: Evidence from the Lancashire Cotton Famine
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Vellore Arthi, University of California, Irvine; Brian Beach, Vanderbilt University; W. Walker Hanlon, NYU Stern School of Business
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Project Description
Abstract: We examine the health effects of the Lancashire Cotton Famine, a sharp downturn in Britain's cotton textile manufacturing regions that was induced by the U.S. Civil War. Migration was an important response to this downturn, but as we document, migration also introduces a number of empirical challenges, which we overcome by introducing a new methodological approach. Our results indicate that the recession increased mortality among households employed in the cotton textile industry. We also document localized spillover effects on households providing non-tradeable services in the areas affected by the recession.
Scope of Project
I10 Health: General
J60 Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers: General
N33 Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: Europe: Pre-1913
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