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Interactive explainer Cutler, David, and Grant Miller (2005). Demography, 42(1): 1–22
Using the staggered arrival of filtration and chlorination in major US cities, the paper attributes roughly half of the 1900–1936 mortality decline to clean water.
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Interactive explainer Almond, Douglas (2006). Journal of Political Economy, 114(4): 672–712
Cohorts in utero during the 1918 influenza pandemic had lower schooling, income and health decades later — the classic “fetal origins” natural experiment.