Comment on “Re-Examining the Contribution of Public Health Efforts to the Decline in Urban Mortality”
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Grant Miller, Stanford University; David Cutler , Harvard University
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Project Citation:
Miller, Grant, and Cutler , David. Comment on “Re-Examining the Contribution of Public Health Efforts to the Decline in Urban Mortality.” Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2022. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2022-03-21. https://doi.org/10.3886/E128662V1
Project Description
Summary:
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We address points raised by Anderson et al. (2020), which commented on our prior work. After correcting unambiguous data mistakes, our revised estimates suggest that municipal water disinfection (filtration) explains 38% of the total mortality rate decline in our sample cities and years – a result not very different from our 43% original estimate. However, effects on infant mortality rates are smaller than in our original analysis. Much of the difference between ACR’s analyses and ours is due to the coding of partial intervention years and to differences in population denominators, for which ideal data are difficult to find.
We address points raised by Anderson et al. (2020), which commented on our prior work. After correcting unambiguous data mistakes, our revised estimates suggest that municipal water disinfection (filtration) explains 38% of the total mortality rate decline in our sample cities and years – a result not very different from our 43% original estimate. However, effects on infant mortality rates are smaller than in our original analysis. Much of the difference between ACR’s analyses and ours is due to the coding of partial intervention years and to differences in population denominators, for which ideal data are difficult to find.
Scope of Project
JEL Classification:
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I15 Health and Economic Development
I18 Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
J18 Demographic Economics: Public Policy
I15 Health and Economic Development
I18 Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
J18 Demographic Economics: Public Policy
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United States
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