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Working Papers

2021

1. What are the Health Benefits of a Constant Water Supply? Evidence from London, 1860-1910
   MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (2)
   See also Journal Article What are the health benefits of a constant water supply? Evidence from London, 1860–1910, Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier (2021) View citations (2) (2021)

2020

2. Early Life Shocks, Market Adjustments, and Black-White Inequality
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

2017

3. Collective Action, White Flight, and the Origins of Formal Segregation Laws
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1)
4. The Rise and Fall of Pellagra in the American South
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
   See also Journal Article The Rise and Fall of Pellagra in the American South, The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press (2019) View citations (6) (2019)

2016

5. Who Should Own and Control Urban Water Systems? Historical Evidence from England and Wales
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (2)
6. Who should own and control urban water systems? Disease and the municipalisation of private waterworks in nineteenth-century England
   Working Papers, Economic History Society

2014

7. Typhoid Fever, Water Quality, and Human Capital Formation
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (6)
   See also Journal Article Typhoid Fever, Water Quality, and Human Capital Formation, The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press (2016) View citations (72) (2016)

2012

8. A Poll Tax by any Other Name: The Political Economy of Disenfranchisement
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (7)

2011

9. Cognitive Disparities, Lead Plumbing, and Water Chemistry: Intelligence Test Scores and Exposure to Water-Borne Lead Among World War Two U.S. Army Enlistees
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (6)

2010

10. Did Frederick Brodie Discover the World's First Environmental Kuznets Curve? Coal Smoke and the Rise and Fall of the London Fog
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (2)
    See also Chapter Did Frederick Brodie Discover the World's First Environmental Kuznets Curve? Coal Smoke and the Rise and Fall of the London Fog, NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2011) View citations (17) (2011)
11. Lead and Mortality
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (10)
    See also Journal Article Lead and Mortality, The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press (2014) View citations (18) (2014)
12. The Elasticity of Demand With Respect to Product Failures; or Why the Market for Quack Medicines Flourished for More Than 150 Years
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1)

2006

13. Deprivation and Disease in Early Twentieth-Century America
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (3)
14. Lead Pipes and Child Mortality
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1)
15. When Bioterrorism Was No Big Deal
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (17)

2005

16. Death and the City: Chicago's Mortality Transition, 1850-1925
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (3)

2003

17. Lead Water Pipes and Infant Mortality in Turn-of-the-Century Massachusetts
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (5)

Journal Articles

2021

1. What are the health benefits of a constant water supply? Evidence from London, 1860–1910
   Explorations in Economic History, 2021, 81, (C) View citations (2)
   See also Working Paper What are the Health Benefits of a Constant Water Supply? Evidence from London, 1860-1910, MPRA Paper (2021) View citations (2) (2021)

2019

2. Collective Action, White Flight, and the Origins of Racial Zoning Laws
   The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 2019, 35, (2), 289-318 View citations (8)
3. The Rise and Fall of Pellagra in the American South
   The Journal of Economic History, 2019, 79, (1), 32-62 View citations (6)
   See also Working Paper The Rise and Fall of Pellagra in the American South, NBER Working Papers (2017) (2017)

2017

4. Political participation in a violent society: The impact of lynching on voter turnout in the post-Reconstruction South
   Journal of Development Economics, 2017, 129, (C), 29-46 View citations (10)

2016

5. Typhoid Fever, Water Quality, and Human Capital Formation
   The Journal of Economic History, 2016, 76, (1), 41-75 View citations (72)
   See also Working Paper Typhoid Fever, Water Quality, and Human Capital Formation, NBER Working Papers (2014) View citations (6) (2014)

2015

6. Empire of Water: An Environmental and Political History of the New York City Water Supply. By David Soll. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 2013. Pp. vii, 275. $29.95, hardcover
   The Journal of Economic History, 2015, 75, (1), 292-293

2014

7. Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America's Children. ByGerald Markowitz andDavid Rosner. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013. xxii + 298 pp. Photographs, figures, tables, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 978-0-520-27325-2
   Business History Review, 2014, 88, (4), 818-820
8. Lead and Mortality
   The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 96, (3), 458-470 View citations (18)
   See also Working Paper Lead and Mortality, NBER Working Papers (2010) View citations (10) (2010)

2012

9. Cognitive disparities, lead plumbing, and water chemistry: Prior exposure to water-borne lead and intelligence test scores among World War Two U.S. Army enlistees
   Economics & Human Biology, 2012, 10, (1), 98-111 View citations (37)

2008

10. Lead Water Pipes and Infant Mortality at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
    Journal of Human Resources, 2008, 43, (3), 553-575 View citations (22)
11. The Horse in the City: Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century. By Clay McShane and Joel A. Tarr. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. Pp. ix, 242. $50
    The Journal of Economic History, 2008, 68, (1), 318-320
12. Water and Chicago's mortality transition, 1850-1925
    Explorations in Economic History, 2008, 45, (1), 1-16 View citations (39)

2003

13. Further Tests of Static Oligopoly Models: Whiskey, 1882–1898
    Journal of Industrial Economics, 2003, 51, (2), 151-166 View citations (25)
14. Municipalizing American Waterworks, 1897--1915
    The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 2003, 19, (2), 373-400 View citations (14)

2002

15. Strategic Behavior in Whiskey Distilling, 1887–1895
    The Journal of Economic History, 2002, 62, (4), 999-1023 View citations (3)
16. THE LIMITS OF JIM CROW: RACE AND THE PROVISION OF WATER AND SEWERAGE SERVICES IN AMERICAN CITIES, 1880–1925
    The Journal of Economic History, 2002, 62, (3), 734-772 View citations (30)
17. The Letters of John Sherman and the Origins of Antitrust
    The Review of Austrian Economics, 2002, 15, (4), 275-95 View citations (4)
18. Ties That Bind: Economic and Political Dilemmas of Urban Utility Networks, 1800–1990. By Charles David Jacobson. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. 2000. Pp. xi, 282. $34.95
    The Journal of Economic History, 2002, 62, (1), 259-260

2001

19. Martin C. Melosi. The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2000. Pp. xii, 578. $59.95
    The Journal of Economic History, 2001, 61, (1), 240-242
20. Population growth in U.S. counties, 1840-1990
    Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2001, 31, (6), 669-699 View citations (34)
21. RACE, DISEASE, AND THE PROVISION OF WATER IN AMERICAN CITIES, 1889–1921
    The Journal of Economic History, 2001, 61, (3), 750-776 View citations (22)

1999

22. Patronage and Public-Sector Wages in 1896
    The Journal of Economic History, 1999, 59, (2), 424-446 View citations (3)
23. Typhoid Rates and the Public Acquisition of Private Waterwork, 1880–1920
    The Journal of Economic History, 1999, 59, (4), 927-948 View citations (21)

1998

24. Exclusive Dealing and the Whiskey Trust, 1890–1895
    The Journal of Economic History, 1998, 58, (3), 755-778 View citations (1)

1997

25. Gas Pipelines and the Emergence of America's Regulatory State: A History of Panhandle Eastern Corporation, 1928–1993. By Christopher J. Castaneda and Clarance M. Smith. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xx, 296. $39.95
    The Journal of Economic History, 1997, 57, (1), 256-257
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    The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 1997, 13, (1), 1-25

1996

27. Cities of Light and Heat: Domesticating Gas and Electricity in Urban America. By Mark Rose. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995. Pp. xviii, 229. $34.50
    The Journal of Economic History, 1996, 56, (1), 260-261

1995

28. Antitrust Regulation before the Sherman Act: The Break-up of the Chicago Gas Trust Company
    Explorations in Economic History, 1995, 32, (1), 109-136 View citations (1)

Books

2015

1. The Pox of Liberty
   University of Chicago Press Economics Books, University of Chicago Press View citations (33)

2008

2. The Great Lead Water Pipe Disaster, vol 1
   MIT Press Books, The MIT Press View citations (1)
   Also in MIT Press Books, The MIT Press (2006) View citations (17)

2004

3. Water, Race, and Disease, vol 1
   MIT Press Books, The MIT Press View citations (59)
   Also in NBER Books, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2004) View citations (59)

Chapters

2011

1. Did Frederick Brodie Discover the World's First Environmental Kuznets Curve? Coal Smoke and the Rise and Fall of the London Fog
   A chapter in The Economics of Climate Change: Adaptations Past and Present, 2011, pp 281-309 View citations (17)
   See also Working Paper Did Frederick Brodie Discover the World's First Environmental Kuznets Curve? Coal Smoke and the Rise and Fall of the London Fog, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2010) View citations (2) (2010)
2. Information and the Impact of Climate and Weather on Mortality Rates during the Great Depression
   A chapter in The Economics of Climate Change: Adaptations Past and Present, 2011, pp 131-167 View citations (26)

2006

3. Regime Change and Corruption. A History of Public Utility Regulation
   A chapter in Corruption and Reform: Lessons from America's Economic History, 2006, pp 259-281 View citations (9)

2003

4. The Significance of Lead Water Mains in American Cities. Some Historical Evidence
   A chapter in Health and Labor Force Participation over the Life Cycle: Evidence from the Past, 2003, pp 181-202 View citations (7)

1994

5. The Institutional Antecedents of State Utility Regulation: The Chicago Gas Industry, 1860 to 1913
   A chapter in The Regulated Economy: A Historical Approach to Political Economy, 1994, pp 55-80 View citations (2)