Coping with Crisis? The Diffusion of Waterworks in Late Nineteenth-Century German Towns
- 1 June 1988
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Journal of Economic History
- Vol. 48 (2) , 307-318
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022050700004927
Abstract
The article examines the diffusion of waterworks in one hundred Rhenish Prussian towns. It exploits features of the institutions of local political representation to develop and estimate a median voter model of demand for water capacity. The results suggest that rising income of the median voter and demand of industrial users, rather than crises in public health, spurred the installation of improved water supply.Keywords
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