Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics Seminar
Seminar:Loss in the time of cholera: Long-run Impact of a Disease Epidemic on the Urban Landscape
Date: Wednesday, March 28
Time: 3:30 pm
Location: 3121 Symons Hall
Preview from the Abstract: “How do geographically concentrated income shocks influence the long-run spatial distribution of poverty within a city? We examine the impact on housing prices of a cholera epidemic in 19th century London in which one in seven families living in one neighborhood experienced the death of a wage earner.”