Disease and development: The role of life expectancy reconsidered

Economics Letters

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 269-272

  Cervellati, Matteo ^a,b   Sunde, Uwe ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b IZA   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^d CEPR   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Demographic transition; Epidemiological revolution; Finite mixture models; Heterogeneous treatment effects; Life expectancy

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052652556     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2011.08.008     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. Acemoglu D., Johnson S. Disease and development: the effect of life expectancy on economic growth. Journal of Political Economy 2007, 115(6):925-985.
2. Boucekkine R., de la Croix D., Peeters D. Early literacy acheivements, population density, and the transition to modern growth. Journal of the European Economic Association 2008, 5(1):183-226.
3. Cervellati, M., Sunde, U., 2007. Human capital, mortality and fertility: a unified theory of the economic and demographic transition, IZA Discussion Paper, 2905.
4. Cervellati M., Sunde U. Life expectancy and economic growth: the role of the demographic transition. Journal of Economic Growth 2011, 16:99-133.
5. Chesnais J.-C. The Demographic Transition: Stages, Patterns and Economic Implications, A Longitudinal Study of Sixty-Seven Countries Covering the Period 1720-1984 1992, Clarendon Press, Oxford.
6. Frühwirth-Schnatter S. Finite Mixture and Markov Switching Models 2006, Springer, New York.
7. Kalemli-Ozcan S. Does mortality decline promote economic growth?. Journal of Economic Growth 2002, 7(4):411-439.
8. Livi-Bacci M. A Concise History of World Population 1992, Blackwell, Oxford.
9. Lorentzen P., McMillan J., Wacziarg R. Death and development. Journal of Economic Growth 2008, 13(2):81-124.
10. Maddison A. The World Economy: Historical Statistics 2003, OECD Development Centre, Paris.
11. Owen A.L., Videras J., Davis L. Do all countries follow the same growth process?. Journal of Economic Growth 2009, 14(4):265-286.
12. Reher D.S. The demographic transition revisited as a global process. Population, Space and Place 2004, 10(1):19-41.
13. Soares R. Mortality reductions, educational attainment, and fertility choice. American Economic Review 2005, 95(3):580-601.