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7. The Gift of a Lifetime: The Hospital, Modern Medicine, and Mortality.

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Hollingsworth, Alex, Karbownik, Krzysztof, Thomasson, Melissa A., and Wray, Anthony

Subjects
VOLUNTARY hospitals, MORTALITY, INFANT mortality, MEDICAL personnel, COMMUNITY foundations
Abstract

We explore how access to modern hospitals and medicine affects mortality by leveraging efforts of the Duke Endowment to modernize hospitals in the early twentieth century. The Endowment helped communities build and expand hospitals, obtain state-of-the-art medical technology, attract qualified medical personnel, and refine management practices. We find that Duke support increased the size and quality of the medical sector, fostering growth in not-for-profit hospitals and high-quality physicians. Duke funding reduced both infant mortality—with larger effects for Black infants than White infants—and long-run mortality. Finally, we find that communities aided by Duke benefited more from medical innovations. (JEL I11, I12, J13, J15, L31, N32, O31) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2024
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13. School Closures during the 1918 Flu Pandemic.

Author

Ager, Philipp, Eriksson, Katherine, Karger, Ezra, Nencka, Peter, and Thomasson, Melissa A.

Subjects
SCHOOL closings, INFLUENZA pandemic, 1918-1919, SCHOOL children, SCHOOL attendance, COVID-19 pandemic, CITIES & towns
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During the 1918–1919 influenza pandemic, many local authorities made the controversial decision to close schools. We use newly digitized data from newspaper archives on the length of school closures for 165 large U.S. cities during the 1918–1919 flu pandemic to assess the long-run consequences of closing schools on children. We find that the closures had no detectable impact on children's school attendance in 1920, nor on their educational attainment and adult labor market outcomes in 1940. We highlight important differences between the 1918–1919 and COVID-19 pandemics and caution against extrapolating from our null effects to modern-day settings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2024
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25. Abstracts of Papers Presented at the Annual Meeting

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Wright, Robert, Hilt, Eric, Holt, Daniel, Yuchtman, Noam, Cantoni, Davide, Go, Sun, Carter, Linda, Dye, Alan, Walsh, Lorena, Nafziger, Steven, Bakker, Gerben, Burhop, Carsten, Phillips, William, Yuru, Wang, Li, Zhang, Ma, Debin, Nunn, Nathan, Wantchekon, Leonard, Whatley, Warren, Petit-Konczyk, Muriel, Parent, Antoine, Hatton, Timothy, Martin, Richard, Treber, Jaret, Thomasson, Melissa, Murray, John, Wallis, Patrick, Mitch, David, Main, Gloria, Ferrie, Joseph, Rolf, Karen, Engerman, Stanley, Camps, Enriqueta, Brown, John, Wright, Gavin, Levenstein, Margaret, Lamoreaux, Naomi, Geiger, Mark, Alston, Julian, Pardey, Philip, Simpson, James, Alston, Lee, Acemoglu, Daron, Mokyr, Joel, Hamilton, Gary, Kao, Cheng-Shu, Masayuki, Tanimoto, Lin, Wen-Kai, Clark, Gregory, Cummins, Neil, Wegge, Simone, Esteves, Rui, Khoudour-Castéras, David, Field, Alexander, Greenstein, Shane, Bresnahan, Timothy, Henderson, Rebecca, Bessen, James, O'Rourke, Kevin, Lehmann, Sibylle, Bogart, Dan, and Ploeckl, Florian

Published
2009

43. Comments on Boustan, Frydman, and Murphy

Author

Thomasson, Melissa

Subjects
College teachers -- Criticism and interpretation, Dissertations, Academic -- Criticism and interpretation, Life insurance -- History, African Americans -- Emigration and immigration, Executives -- Compensation and benefits, Executives -- Research, Economics, History
Published
2007

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