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Disease and Development Revisited
Bloom, David; canning, david; Fink, Günther - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
In a recent paper, Acemoglu and Johnson (2007) argue that the large increases in population health witnessed in the 20th century may have lowered income levels. We argue that this result depends crucially on their assumption that initial health and income do not affect subsequent economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005079142
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Disease and Development: The Effect of Life Expectancy on Economic Growth
Acemoglu, Daron; Johnson, Simon - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
obtain estimates of mortality by disease before the 1940s from the League of Nations and national public health sources …. Using these data, we construct an instrument for changes in life expectancy, referred to as predicted mortality, which is … based on the pre-intervention distribution of mortality from various diseases around the world and dates of global …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005088586
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Modern Medicine and the 20th Century Decline in Mortality: Evidence on the Impact of Sulfa Drugs
Jayachandran, Seema; Lleras-Muney, Adriana; Smith, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
.S. mortality. For several often-fatal infectious diseases, sulfa drugs represented the first effective treatment. Using time … drugs led to a 25 to 40 percent decline in maternal mortality, 17 to 36 percent decline in pneumonia mortality, and 52 to 67 … percent decline in scarlet-fever mortality between 1937 and 1943. Altogether, they reduced mortality by 2 to 4 percent and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005055440
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The Cost of Uncertain Life Span
Edwards, Ryan D. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
component due to infant mortality, has exhibited even more convergence than life expectancy. Sustained reductions in the … total economic value of gains against mortality in the U.S. prior to 1950 but only about 5 percent since. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005710292
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Corporate Governance and the Plight of Minority Shareholders in the United States Before the Great Depression
Lamoreaux, Naomi; Rosenthal, Jean-Laurent - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004
Legal records indicate that conflicts of interest -- that is, situations in which officers and directors were in a position to benefit themselves at the expense of minority shareholders -- were endemic to corporations in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century U.S. Yet investors...
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Religious Market Structure, Religious Participation, and Outcomes: Is Religion Good for You?
Gruber, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
Religion plays an important role in the lives of many Americans, but there is relatively little study by economists of the implications of religiosity for economic outcomes. This likely reflects the enormous difficulty inherent in separating the causal effects of religiosity from other factors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005079181
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The Opium Wars, Opium Legalization, and Opium Consumption in China
Miron, Jeffrey A; Feige, Chris - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
The effect of drug prohibition on drug consumption is a critical issue in debates over drug policy. One episode that provides information on the consumption-reducing effect of drug prohibition is the Chinese legalization of opium in 1858. In this paper we examine the impact of China's opium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005084789
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The Political Economy of Ethnolinguistic Cleavages
Wacziarg, Romain; Desmet, Klaus; Ortuño-Ortín, Ignacio - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
This paper proposes a new method to measure ethnolinguistic diversity and offers new results linking such diversity with a range of political economy outcomes -- civil conflict, redistribution, economic growth and the provision of public goods. We use linguistic trees, describing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005084801
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The Irony of Reform: Did Large Employers Subvert Workplace Safety Reform, 1869 to 1930?
Fishback, Price Vanmeter - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
Between 1869 and the early 1900s state governments regulated safety in mines and factories and reformed the liability for accidents. Reformers sought to reduce workers' risks and ensure that those involved in accidents received reasonable medical care and compensation for lost earnings. Yet...
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Water, Water, Everywhere: Municipal Finance and Water Supply in American Cities
Cutler, David M.; Miller, Grant - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
The construction of municipal water systems was a major event in the history of American cities -- bringing relief from disease, providing resources to combat fires, attracting business investment, and promoting development generally. Although the first large-scale municipal water system in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005085051