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American Economic History: Water and Health

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Chair:
Todd Guilfoos
, University of Rhode Island

Public and Private Investment in Drainage: U.S. Agricultural Development and the Eradication of Malaria

Eric Edwards
,
North Carolina State University
Wally N. Thurman
,
North Carolina State University

Playing Checkers in Chinatown

Jose-Antonio Espin-Sanchez
,
Yale University
Santiago Truffa
,
University of Los Andes

The Value of Water Power during the American Industrial Revolution

Todd Guilfoos
,
University of Rhode Island

Public Health Expenditure and Mortality: Revisiting the Early-Twentieth Century Mortality Decline through the Lens of Local Public Finance

Lauren Hoehn-Velasco
,
Georgia State University
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
,
University of Minnesota
Discussant(s)
Carl Kitchens
,
Florida State University
Gary Libecap
,
University of California-Santa Barbara
Anders Humlum
,
University of Chicago
Melissa Thomasson
,
Miami University