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Poverty, pollution, and mortality: The 1918 influenza pandemic in a developing German economy
In: The economic history review, Band 75, Heft 4, S. 1026-1053
ISSN: 1468-0289
AbstractThe paper provides a detailed analysis of excess mortality during the 'Spanish Flu' in a developing German economy and the effect of poverty and air pollution on pandemic mortality. The empirical analysis is based on a difference‐in‐differences approach using annual all‐cause mortality statistics at the parish level in the Kingdom of Württemberg. The paper complements the existing literature on urban pandemic severity with comprehensive evidence from mostly rural parishes. The results show that middle‐ and high‐income parishes had a significantly lower increase in mortality rates than low‐income parishes. Moreover, the mortality rate during the 1918 influenza pandemic was significantly higher in highly polluted parishes compared with least polluted parishes. Furthermore, the paper provides a detailed description of mortality statistics in Württemberg and new excess mortality rate estimates for Germany and its states.
BOOK REVIEWS: peasants or empire? rev. of Jan Douwe van der Ploeg, The New Peasantries: Struggles for Autonomy and Sustainability in an Era of Empire and Globalization
In: New politics: a journal of socialist thought, Band 13, Heft 1, S. 154-157
ISSN: 0028-6494
East Timor
In: Bulletin of concerned Asian scholars, Band 13, Heft 2, S. 74-74
A guide to radical literature on economic development with special reference to asian agricultural development
In: Bulletin of concerned Asian scholars, Band 6, Heft 4, S. 14-16
Solution to the asian food crisis: "Green revolution" or social revolution?
In: Bulletin of concerned Asian scholars, Band 6, Heft 4, S. 2-13
Economic circuits in a Surinam village
In: New West Indian guide: NWIG = Nieuwe west-indische gids, Band 48, Heft 1, S. 158-172
ISSN: 2213-4360
Life is a little better: redistribution as a development strategy in Nadur Village, Kerala
In: Conflict and social change series
The New Peasantries: Struggles for Autonomy and Sustainability in an Era of Empire and Globalization
In: New politics: a journal of socialist thought, Band 13, Heft 1, S. 154-157
ISSN: 0028-6494
Catastrophe and Culture: The Anthropology of Disaster
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 106, Heft 4, S. 765-766
ISSN: 1548-1433
The international conference on democratic decentralization
In: Bulletin of concerned Asian scholars, Band 32, Heft 3, S. 73-73
Review
In: Bulletin of concerned Asian scholars, Band 23, Heft 1, S. 68-73
Applied Anthropology: Agricultural Sustainability in a Changing World Order. Gordon K. Douglas
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 87, Heft 4, S. 941-942
ISSN: 1548-1433
More on Geertz's Interpretive Theory
In: Current anthropology, Band 25, Heft 5, S. 692-693
ISSN: 1537-5382