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Werner Troesken

(deceased)

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This person is deceased (Date: 14 Sep 2018)
First Name:Werner
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Last Name:Troesken
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RePEc Short-ID:ptr352
https://www.econ.pitt.edu/people/werner-troesken
Terminal Degree:1992 Department of Economics; Washington University in St. Louis (from RePEc Genealogy)

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Working papers

  1. Troesken, Werner & Tynan, Nicola & Yang, Yuanxiaoyue, 2021. "What are the Health Benefits of a Constant Water Supply? Evidence from London, 1860-1910," MPRA Paper 107872, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  2. Karen Clay & Ethan J. Schmick, 2020. "The Impact of an Environmental Shock on Black-White Inequality: Evidence from the Boll Weevil," NBER Working Papers 27101, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  3. Werner Troesken & Randall Walsh, 2017. "Collective Action, White Flight, and the Origins of Formal Segregation Laws," NBER Working Papers 23691, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  4. Karen Clay & Ethan Schmick & Werner Troesken, 2017. "The Rise and Fall of Pellagra in the American South," NBER Working Papers 23730, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  5. Nicola Tynan & Brian Beach & Werner Troesken, 2016. "Who should own and control urban water systems? Disease and the municipalisation of private waterworks in nineteenth-century England," Working Papers 16006, Economic History Society.
  6. Brian Beach & Werner Troesken & Nicola Tynan, 2016. "Who Should Own and Control Urban Water Systems? Historical Evidence from England and Wales," NBER Working Papers 22553, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  7. Brian Beach & Joseph Ferrie & Martin Saavedra & Werner Troesken, 2014. "Typhoid Fever, Water Quality, and Human Capital Formation," NBER Working Papers 20279, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  8. Daniel B. Jones & Werner Troesken & Randall Walsh, 2012. "A Poll Tax by any Other Name: The Political Economy of Disenfranchisement," NBER Working Papers 18612, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  9. Joseph P. Ferrie & Karen Rolf & Werner Troesken, 2011. "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 17161, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  10. Karen Clay & Werner Troesken & Michael R. Haines, 2010. "Lead and Mortality," NBER Working Papers 16480, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  11. Werner Troesken, 2010. "When Bioterrorism Was No Big Deal," Working Paper 422, Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh, revised Jan 2010.
  12. Werner Troesken, 2010. "Historical Predictions Regarding the Safety of Lead Water Pipes," Working Paper 430, Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh, revised Jan 2010.
  13. Werner Troesken, 2010. "Competition and Corruption: Lessons from 150 Years of Industrial Governance," Working Paper 426, Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh, revised Jan 2010.
  14. Werner Troesken, 2010. "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 15699, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  15. Werner Troesken, 2010. "Lead, Mortality, and Productivity," Working Paper 424, Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh, revised Jan 2010.
  16. Werner Troesken, 2010. "Why the Market for Quack Medicines Flourished for 150 Years," Working Paper 420, Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh, revised Jan 2010.
  17. Karen Clay & Werner Troesken, 2010. "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 15669, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  18. Karen Clay & Werner Troesken, 2006. "Deprivation and Disease in Early Twentieth-Century America," NBER Working Papers 12111, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  19. Karen Clay & Werner Troesken & Michael Haines, 2006. "Lead Pipes and Child Mortality," NBER Working Papers 12603, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  20. Patricia E. Beeson & Werner Troesken, 2006. "When Bioterrorism Was No Big Deal," NBER Working Papers 12636, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  21. Joseph P. Ferrie & Werner Troesken, 2005. "Death and the City: Chicago's Mortality Transition, 1850-1925," NBER Working Papers 11427, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  22. Werner Troesken, 2003. "Lead Water Pipes and Infant Mortality in Turn-of-the-Century Massachusetts," NBER Working Papers 9549, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

Articles

  1. Troesken, Werner & Tynan, Nicola & Yang, Yuanxiaoyue Artemis, 2021. "What are the health benefits of a constant water supply? Evidence from London, 1860–1910," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 81(C).
  2. Clay, Karen & Schmick, Ethan & Troesken, Werner, 2019. "The Rise and Fall of Pellagra in the American South," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 79(1), pages 32-62, March.
  3. Werner Troesken & Randall Walsh, 2019. "Collective Action, White Flight, and the Origins of Racial Zoning Laws," The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Oxford University Press, vol. 35(2), pages 289-318.
  4. Jones, Daniel B. & Troesken, Werner & Walsh, Randall, 2017. "Political participation in a violent society: The impact of lynching on voter turnout in the post-Reconstruction South," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 129(C), pages 29-46.
  5. Beach, Brian & Ferrie, Joseph & Saavedra, Martin & Troesken, Werner, 2016. "Typhoid Fever, Water Quality, and Human Capital Formation," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 76(1), pages 41-75, March.
  6. Troesken, Werner, 2015. "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, Cambridge University Press, vol. 75(1), pages 292-293, March.
  7. Karen Clay & Werner Troesken & Michael Haines, 2014. "Lead and Mortality," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 96(3), pages 458-470, July.
  8. Troesken, Werner, 2014. "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," Business History Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 88(4), pages 818-820, January.
  9. Ferrie, Joseph P. & Rolf, Karen & Troesken, Werner, 2012. "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, Elsevier, vol. 10(1), pages 98-111.
  10. Werner Troesken, 2008. "Lead Water Pipes and Infant Mortality at the Turn of the Twentieth Century," Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 43(3), pages 553-575.
  11. Ferrie, Joseph P. & Troesken, Werner, 2008. "Water and Chicago's mortality transition, 1850-1925," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 45(1), pages 1-16, January.
  12. Troesken, Werner, 2008. "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, Cambridge University Press, vol. 68(1), pages 318-320, March.
  13. Karen Clay & Werner Troesken, 2003. "Further Tests of Static Oligopoly Models: Whiskey, 1882–1898," Journal of Industrial Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 51(2), pages 151-166, June.
  14. Werner Troesken, 2003. "Municipalizing American Waterworks, 1897--1915," The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Oxford University Press, vol. 19(2), pages 373-400, October.
  15. Clay, Karen & Troesken, Werner, 2002. "Strategic Behavior in Whiskey Distilling, 1887–1895," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 62(4), pages 999-1023, December.
  16. Troesken, Werner, 2002. "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, Cambridge University Press, vol. 62(1), pages 259-260, March.
  17. Troesken, Werner, 2002. "The Letters of John Sherman and the Origins of Antitrust," The Review of Austrian Economics, Springer;Society for the Development of Austrian Economics, vol. 15(4), pages 275-295, December.
  18. Troesken, Werner, 2002. "The Limits Of Jim Crow: Race And The Provision Of Water And Sewerage Services In American Cities, 1880–1925," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 62(3), pages 734-772, September.
  19. Troesken, Werner, 2001. "Race, Disease, And The Provision Of Water In American Cities, 1889–1921," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 61(3), pages 750-776, September.
  20. Troesken, Werner, 2001. "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, Cambridge University Press, vol. 61(1), pages 240-242, March.
  21. Beeson, Patricia E. & DeJong, David N. & Troesken, Werner, 2001. "Population growth in U.S. counties, 1840-1990," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 31(6), pages 669-699, November.
  22. Troesken, Werner, 1999. "Patronage and Public-Sector Wages in 1896," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 59(2), pages 424-446, June.
  23. Troesken, Werner, 1999. "Typhoid Rates and the Public Acquisition of Private Waterwork, 1880–1920," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 59(4), pages 927-948, December.
  24. Troesken, Werner, 1998. "Exclusive Dealing and the Whiskey Trust, 1890–1895," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 58(3), pages 755-778, September.
  25. Troesken, Werner, 1997. "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 Universit," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 57(1), pages 256-257, March.
  26. Troesken, Werner, 1997. "The," The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Oxford University Press, vol. 13(1), pages 1-25, April.
  27. Troesken, Werner, 1996. "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, Cambridge University Press, vol. 56(1), pages 260-261, March.
  28. Troesken Werner, 1995. "Antitrust Regulation before the Sherman Act: The Break-up of the Chicago Gas Trust Company," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 32(1), pages 109-136, January.

Chapters

  1. Karen Clay & Werner Troesken, 2011. "Did Frederick Brodie Discover the World's First Environmental Kuznets Curve? Coal Smoke and the Rise and Fall of the London Fog," NBER Chapters, in: The Economics of Climate Change: Adaptations Past and Present, pages 281-309, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  2. Price V. Fishback & Werner Troesken & Trevor Kollmann & Michael Haines & Paul W. Rhode & Melissa Thomasson, 2011. "Information and the Impact of Climate and Weather on Mortality Rates during the Great Depression," NBER Chapters, in: The Economics of Climate Change: Adaptations Past and Present, pages 131-167, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  3. Werner Troesken, 2006. "Regime Change and Corruption. A History of Public Utility Regulation," NBER Chapters, in: Corruption and Reform: Lessons from America's Economic History, pages 259-281, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  4. Werner Troesken & Patricia E. Beeson, 2003. "The Significance of Lead Water Mains in American Cities. Some Historical Evidence," NBER Chapters, in: Health and Labor Force Participation over the Life Cycle: Evidence from the Past, pages 181-202, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  5. Werner Troesken, 1994. "The Institutional Antecedents of State Utility Regulation: The Chicago Gas Industry, 1860 to 1913," NBER Chapters, in: The Regulated Economy: A Historical Approach to Political Economy, pages 55-80, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

Books

  1. Troesken, Werner, 2015. "The Pox of Liberty," University of Chicago Press Economics Books, University of Chicago Press, number 9780226922171, September.
  2. Werner Troesken, 2006. "The Great Lead Water Pipe Disaster," MIT Press Books, The MIT Press, edition 1, volume 1, number 0262201674, December.
  3. Werner Troesken, 2004. "Water, Race, and Disease," MIT Press Books, The MIT Press, edition 1, volume 1, number 0262201488, December.

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NEP is an announcement service for new working papers, with a weekly report in each of many fields. This author has had 14 papers announced in NEP. These are the fields, ordered by number of announcements, along with their dates. If the author is listed in the directory of specialists for this field, a link is also provided.
  1. NEP-HIS: Business, Economic and Financial History (9) 2005-06-27 2006-04-08 2010-02-20 2014-07-21 2016-09-04 2017-08-27 2017-09-03 2020-05-25 2021-05-31. Author is listed
  2. NEP-HEA: Health Economics (5) 2003-03-10 2005-06-27 2006-11-04 2010-10-30 2021-05-31. Author is listed
  3. NEP-URE: Urban and Real Estate Economics (5) 2005-06-27 2010-10-30 2011-07-02 2017-08-27 2020-05-25. Author is listed
  4. NEP-CDM: Collective Decision-Making (2) 2012-12-22 2017-08-27
  5. NEP-POL: Positive Political Economics (2) 2012-12-22 2017-08-27
  6. NEP-AGR: Agricultural Economics (1) 2017-09-03
  7. NEP-EDU: Education (1) 2020-05-25
  8. NEP-EVO: Evolutionary Economics (1) 2017-09-03
  9. NEP-GEO: Economic Geography (1) 2005-06-27
  10. NEP-HRM: Human Capital and Human Resource Management (1) 2014-07-21
  11. NEP-LAB: Labour Economics (1) 2020-05-25
  12. NEP-LAW: Law and Economics (1) 2017-08-27
  13. NEP-NEU: Neuroeconomics (1) 2011-07-02
  14. NEP-ORE: Operations Research (1) 2020-05-25
  15. NEP-PKE: Post Keynesian Economics (1) 2012-12-22
  16. NEP-PUB: Public Finance (1) 2012-12-22
  17. NEP-SOC: Social Norms and Social Capital (1) 2017-08-27

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