%0 Journal Article %J Journal of Economic Perspectives %D 2005 %T Autopsy on an Empire: Understanding Mortality in Russia and the Former Soviet Union %A David Cutler %A Elizabeth Brainerd %B Journal of Economic Perspectives %V 19 %P 107-130 %G eng %N 1 %0 Journal Article %J American Economic Review %D 2005 %T What Explains Differences in Smoking, Drinking, and Other Health Related Behaviors? %A David Cutler %A Edward Glaeser %B American Economic Review %V 95 %P 238-242 %G eng %N 2 %0 Journal Article %J Health Services Research %D 2005 %T Increasing Health Insurance Costs and the Decline in Health Insurance Coverage %A David Cutler %A Michael Chernew %A Patricia S. Keenan %B Health Services Research %V 40 %P 1021-1039 %G eng %U http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16033490?dopt=Abstract %N 4 %0 Book Section %B Analyses in the Economics of Aging %D 2005 %T Intensive Medical Technology and the Reduction in Disability %A David Cutler %E David Wise %B Analyses in the Economics of Aging %I University of Chicago Press %G eng %U http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo3533676.html %0 Journal Article %J Annals of Internal Medicine %D 2005 %T Cost-Effectiveness of Full Medicare Coverage of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors for Beneficiaries with Diabetes %A David Cutler %A Allison Rosen %A Mary Beth Hamel %A Milt Weinstein %A Mark Fendrick %A Sandeep Vijan %B Annals of Internal Medicine %V 143 %P 89-99 %G eng %U http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16027450?dopt=Abstract %N 2 %0 Journal Article %J American Economic Review %D 2005 %T Charity Care, Risk Pooling, and the Decline in Private Health Insurance %A David Cutler %A Michael Chernew %A Patricia Keenan %B American Economic Review %V 95 %P 209-213 %G eng %N 2 %0 Journal Article %J Health Affairs %D 2005 %T US Adoption of Computerized Physician Order Entry Systems %A David Cutler %A Naomi Feldman %A Jill Horwitz %B Health Affairs %V 24 %P 1654-1663 %G eng %U http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/24/6/1654.abstract %N 6 %0 Book Section %B Ethnicity, Social Mobility, and Public Policy Comparing the USA and UK %D 2005 %T Ghettos and the Transmission of Ethnic Capital %A David M Cutler %A Edward L. Glaeser %A Jacob Vigdor %E Glenn C. Loury %E Tariq Modood %E Steven M. Teles %B Ethnicity, Social Mobility, and Public Policy Comparing the USA and UK %I Cambridge University Press %C Cambridge %P 204-221 %G eng %U http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item1170537/?site_locale=en_GB %0 Journal Article %J Demography %D 2005 %T The Role of Public Health Improvements in Health Advances: The 20th Century United States %A David M Cutler %A Grant Miller %X

Mortality rates in the US fell more rapidly during the late 19th and early 20th Centuries than any other period in American history. This decline coincided with an epidemiological transition and the disappearance of a mortality “penalty” associated with living in urban areas. There is little empirical evidence and much unresolved debate about what caused these improvements, however. This paper investigates the causal influence of clean water technologies – filtration and chlorination – on mortality in major cities during the early 20th Century. Plausibly exogenous variation in the timing and location of technology adoption is used to identify these effects, and the validity of this identifying assumption is examined in detail. We find that clean water was responsible for nearly half of the total mortality reduction in major cities, three-quarters of the infant mortality reduction, and nearly two-thirds of the child mortality reduction. Rough calculations suggest that the social rate of return to these technologies was greater than 23 to 1 with a cost per life-year saved by clean water of about $500 in 2003 dollars. Implications for developing countries are briefly considered.

%B Demography %V 42 %P 1-22 %G eng %N 1