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‘The Child is Father of the Man:’ Implications for the Demographic Transition
de la Croix, David; Licandro, Omar - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
We propose a new theory of the demographic transition based on the evidence that body development during childhood is an important predictor of adult life expectancy. Fertility, childhood development, longevity, education and income growth all result from individual decisions. Parents face a...
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Human Development in Africa: A Long-run Perspective
Prados de la Escosura, Leandro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Long-run trends in Africa’s well-being are provided on the basis of a new index of human development, alternative to … experienced in other developing regions. Within Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa has fallen steadily behind the North since mid-20th …
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Measuring the Transformation of the European Economies: Income, Health and Welfare
Floud, Roderick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1984
The measurement of national income has added greatly to our understanding of economic and social change in Europe over the past hundred years. But national income analysis does not take full account of changes in welfare and particularly of the causes and effects of long-term changes in the...
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Economic Conditions in Early Modern Bengal: A Contribution to the Divergence Debate
Roy, Tirthankar - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
The paper contributes to the debate on relative levels of living in the early modern world by estimating the income of and probable range of income growth in Bengal before European colonization. The exercise yields two conclusions, (a) average income in Bengal was significantly smaller than that...
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Income and schooling
Brückner, Markus; Gradstein, Mark - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
Whereas existing literature has documented strong correlations between national incomes and measures of schooling attainment, causality has been hard to pin down. Much of empirical work had tended to interpret these correlations as implying an effect of human capital on national income, but...
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Life Expectancy and Schooling: New Insights from Cross-Country Data
Hazan, Moshe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
I argue that distinguishing between life expectancy at birth and life expectancy beyond the crucial early childhood years affects the relationship between life expectancy and schooling in a meaningful way. In particular, I show that while the change in life expectancy at birth between 1960 and...
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Demographic Change, Economic Growth and Social Welfare in Europe
Ermisch, John F; Joshi, Heather - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1987
This paper examines the economic rationale for concern about the falling rate of growth of Europe's population. It also assembles demographic and economic time-series data for the countries of Eastern and Western Europe during the postwar period. The consequences of demographic developments for...
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Individual Mortality and Macroeconomic Conditions from Birth to Death
Lindeboom, Maarten; Portrait, France; den Berg, Gerard J van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
This Paper analyses the effects of macroeconomic conditions throughout life on the individual mortality rate. We … estimate flexible duration models where the individual’s mortality rate depends on current conditions, conditions earlier in … health indicators. The results indicate a strong effect of macroeconomic conditions during childhood on mortality at all ages …
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Life Expectancy and Economic Growth: The Role of the Demographic Transition
Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
. We provide evidence supporting these predictions using data on exogenous mortality reductions in the context of the …
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Natural Selection and the Evolution of Life Expectancy
Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
This research advances an evolutionary growth theory that captures the pattern of life expectancy in the process of development, shedding new light on the sources of the remarkable rise in life expectancy since the Agricultural Revolution. The theory suggests that social, economic and...
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