This article reviews the global health and economic consequences of the 1918 influenza
pandemic, with a particular focus on topics that have seen a renewed interest because of …

Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Best Book of the Year Award in 2011 “A
masterpiece.”—Steven D. Levitt, coauthor of Freakonomics “Bursting with insights.”—The …

We explore the first period of sustained decline in child mortality in the United States and
provide estimates of the independent and combined effects of clean water and effective …

Investment in sanitation and drinking water infrastructure is essential for universal access to
these services in developing countries. Universal coverage of water and sanitation services …

This article reviews recent literature using insights from history to answer central questions
in urban economics. This area of research has seen rapid growth in the past decade, thanks …

Recent work has argued that zoning is responsible for racial segregation, disparities in
public goods provision, growing regional inequality, and exploding housing costs in …

New water purification technologies led to large mortality declines by helping eliminate
typhoid fever and other waterborne diseases. We examine how this affected human capital …

Residential segregation by race grew sharply during the early twentieth century as black
migrants from the South arrived in northern cities. Using newly assembled neighborhood …

Our nation began with the simple phrase,“We the People.” But who were and are “We”? Who
were we in 1776, in 1865, or 1968, and is there any continuity in character between the we …

I discuss the health transition in the United States, bringing new data to bear on health
indicators and investigating the changing relationship between health, income, and the …