When Beer Is Safer than Water: Beer Availability and Mortality from Waterborne Illnesses
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mortality; water quality; beer; industrial revolution;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- N33 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy - - - Europe: Pre-1913
- I15 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Economic Development
- Q25 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - Water
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2024-08-26 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-ENV-2024-08-26 (Environmental Economics)
- NEP-GRO-2024-08-26 (Economic Growth)
- NEP-HEA-2024-08-26 (Health Economics)
- NEP-HIS-2024-08-26 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
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