Disease and development: The role of life expectancy reconsidered

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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Year of publication:	2011
Authors:	Cervellati, Matteo ; Sunde, Uwe
Published in:	Economics Letters. - Elsevier, ISSN 0165-1765. - Vol. 113.2011, 3, p. 269-272
Publisher:	Elsevier
Subject:	Life expectancy \| Demographic transition \| Epidemiological revolution \| Heterogeneous treatment effects \| Finite mixture models

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Type of publication:	Article
Classification:	J10 - Demographic Economics. General ; J13 - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth ; N30 - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Income and Wealth. General, International, or Comparative ; O10 - Economic Development. General ; O40 - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity. General ; E10 - General Aggregative Models. General
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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