Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Historical Health Patterns

Examining historical patterns of health and their effects on current patterns is one of the most exciting aspects of modern economics that i can think of. below are some recent examples of this. Great stuff!

http://web.mit.edu/costa/www/costa_kahnsubmissionfinal.pdf

http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/dcutler/papers/cutler_miller_cities.pdf

http://www.nber.org/~almond/jmp3.pdf (this was published in a slightly amended form in JPE)

http://web.mit.edu/costa/www/draft4chicago.pdf

http://web.mit.edu/costa/www/demog3.pdf

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