Reexamining the Contribution of Public Health Efforts to the Decline in Urban Mortality: Comment
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
vol. 14,
no. 2, April 2022
(pp. 158-65)
Abstract
We address points raised by Anderson, Charles, and Rees (2022), which comments on our prior work. After correcting unambiguous data mistakes, our revised estimates suggest that municipal water disinfection (filtration) explains 38 percent of the total mortality rate decline in our sample cities and years—a result not very different from our original estimate of 43 percent. However, effects on infant mortality rates are smaller than in our original analysis. Much of the difference between their 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.Citation
Cutler, David M., and Grant Miller. 2022. "Reexamining the Contribution of Public Health Efforts to the Decline in Urban Mortality: Comment." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 14 (2): 158-65. DOI: 10.1257/app.20190711Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- H75 State and Local Government: Health; Education; Welfare; Public Pensions
- I12 Health Behavior
- I18 Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
- J13 Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
- Q18 Agricultural Policy; Food Policy
- Q51 Valuation of Environmental Effects
- Q53 Air Pollution; Water Pollution; Noise; Hazardous Waste; Solid Waste; Recycling
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