Sanjay Basu
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Banking crises and mortality during the Great Depression: evidence from US urban populations, 1929-1937.
J Epidemiol Community Health. 2012; (5): 410-9
Previous research suggests that the Great Depression led to improvements in public health. However, these studies rely on highly aggregated national data (using fewer than 25 data points) and potentially biased measures of the Great Depression. The authors assess the effects of the Great Depression using city-level estimates of US mortality and an underlying measure of economic crisis, bank suspensions, at the state level.
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