The health cost of living in a city: The case of France at the end of the 19th century |
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Authors: | Lionel Kesztenbaum Jean-Laurent Rosenthal |
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Affiliation: | aInstitut National d'Etudes Démographiques (INED), 133 Boulevard Davout, 75980 Paris Cedex 20, France;bDivision of the Humanities and Social Sciences MC 228-77, California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA 91125, USA |
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Abstract: | Despite a long standing debate over urban living conditions during industrialization, the impact of rural–urban migrations on health and mortality remains an open question. We observe both mortality and geographical mobility in a large longitudinal dataset of French males and show that rural–urban migrants benefited from clear advantages over those who already lived in the city. However, this benefit fades in a few years. Further we find no evidence of a spike in mortality among rural migrants as they encountered the more severe disease environment of cities, instead it seems their initially superior physical human capital was depleted over time. |
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Keywords: | JEL classification: I18 N33 N93 |
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