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DESCRIPTION: \nPollution\, Infectious Disease\, and Infant Mortality: Evide
 nce from the 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic\nJosh Lewis\, PhD\nAssistant 
 Professor\, Department of Economics\, Université de Montréal\nSYNOPSIS:\nT
 his paper studies how air pollution affected the severity of the 1918 infl
 uenza pandemic. The empirical analysis combines newly digitized data on in
 fant mortality with information on air pollution caused by coal-fired elec
 tricity generation for a panel of 195 American cities. We estimate a signi
 ficant positive effect of local emissions on pandemic-related mortality\, 
 but find no relationship between the outbreak and local water quality. The
 se results are consistent with the epidemiology of the influenza virus\, w
 hich targeted lung function. The estimates imply that differences in air q
 uality can account for roughly one third of the cross-city variation in pa
 ndemic severity. We re-evaluate the impact of the pandemic on infant morta
 lity in a counterfactual setting in which all above-median cities reduced 
 pollution to median levels. The results highlight the importance of health
  interaction effects\, and suggest that pollution abatement policies may o
 ffer large indirect benefits to health.\nOBJECTIVES:\n1) Describe the meth
 odological challenges involved in estimating the relationship between air 
 pollution and infectious illness\n2) Discuss the history of the 1918 influ
 enza pandemic\, and describe how it can be used as a ‘natural experiment’ 
 to shed light on this question \n3) Provide causal evidence on the relatio
 nship between air pollution and excess mortality during the 1918 influenza
  pandemic\nBIO:\nhttp://sceco.umontreal.ca/en/repertoire-departement/vue/l
 ewis-joshua/\n
DTSTART:20150921T200000Z
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LOCATION:Room 521\, Meakins\, McIntyre Medical Building\, CA\, QC\, Montrea
 l\, H3G 1Y6\, 3655 promenade Sir William Osler
SUMMARY:Epidemiology Seminar
URL:/epi-biostat-occh/channels/event/epidemiology-semi
 nar-254820
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