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Coal Smoke and Mortality in an Early Industrial Economy
- B. Beach, W. W. Hanlon
- Environmental Science
- 1 November 2018
Air pollution was severe in the nineteenth century, yet its health consequences are often overlooked due to a lack of pollution data. We offer a new approach for inferring local coal use levels based… Expand
Necessity is the Mother of Invention: Input Supplies and Directed Technical Change
- W. W. Hanlon
- Economics
- 18 May 2012
This study provides causal evidence that a shock to the relative supply of inputs to production can (1) affect the direction of technological progress and (2) lead to a rebound in the relative price… Expand
Recessions , Mortality , and Migration Bias : Evidence from the Lancashire Cotton Famine ∗ Vellore
We examine the health effects of the Lancashire Cotton Famine, a sharp downturn in the cotton textile manufacturing regions of Britain induced by the U.S. Civil War. This is a setting characterized… Expand
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Pollution and Mortality in the 19th Century
- W. W. Hanlon
- Geography
- 1 October 2015
Mortality was extremely high in the industrial cities of the 19th century, but little is known about the role played by pollution in generating this pattern, due largely to a lack of direct pollution… Expand
Do Better Monitoring Institutions Increase Leadership Quality in Community Organizations? Evidence from Uganda.
- G. Grossman, W. W. Hanlon
- Political Science
- 8 May 2013
We offer a framework for analyzing the impact of monitoring --- a commonly recommended solution to poor leadership --- on the quality of democratically elected leaders in community organizations in… Expand
Necessity Is the Mother of Invention: Input Supplies and Directed Technical Change: Directed Technical Change
- W. W. Hanlon
- Economics
- 2015
Do Better Monitoring Institutions Increase Leadership Quality in Community Organizations? Evidence from Uganda: EVIDENCE FROM UGANDA
- G. Grossman, W. W. Hanlon
- Political Science
- 1 July 2014
Agglomeration: A long-run panel data approach
- W. W. Hanlon, Antonio Miscio
- Economics
- 1 May 2017
This paper studies the sources of agglomeration economies in cities. We begin by incorporating within and cross-industry spillovers into a dynamic spatial equilibrium model in order to obtain a panel… Expand
Coal Smoke and the Costs of the Industrial Revolution
- W. W. Hanlon
- Economics
- 1 December 2016
While the Industrial Revolution brought economic growth, there is a long debate in economics over the costs of the pollution externalities that accompanied early industrialization. To help settle… Expand
Endogenous City Disamenities : Lessons from Industrial Pollution in 19 th Century Britain ∗
- W. W. Hanlon
- 2015
Growing industries create jobs and attract workers to cities, but they may also generate pollution, an endogenous disamenity that drives workers and firms away. Separating these positive and negative… Expand
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