Disease and development: The role of life expectancy reconsidered |
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| Authors: | Matteo Cervellati Uwe Sunde |
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| Institution: | aUniversity of Bologna, Italy;bIZA, Bonn, Germany;cUniversity of St. Gallen, Switzerland;dCEPR, London, United Kingdom |
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| Abstract: | This note estimates the causal effect of life expectancy on per capita income and tests the hypothesis of a non-monotonic effect using finite mixture models. The results confirm the hypothesis and qualify recent evidence for a negative effect by Acemoglu and Johnson (2007). |
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| Keywords: | JEL classification: J10 J13 N30 O10 O40 E10 |
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