and the evolution of societies from an epoch of stagnation to sustained economic growth. … fecundity and thus predisposition towards investment in child quality was conducive for long-run reproductive success within the … the eighteenth centuries, the study explores the effect of fecundity on the number of descendants of early inhabitants in …

Analyzing a variety of cross-national and sub-national data, we argue that high adult mortality reduces economic growth … almost all of Africa's growth tragedy. Our analysis also underscores grim forecasts of the long-run economic costs of the …

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 …

This Paper studies how an institution such as markets affects the evolution of mankind. My key point is that the forces …

In this paper we investigate the causal effect of life expectancy on economic growth by explicitly accounting for the … population growth and foster human capital accumulation after the onset of the demographic transition. This implies that the … transition. Moreover, a sufficiently high life expectancy is ultimately the trigger of the transition to sustained income growth …

We propose a unified growth theory to investigate the mechanics generating the economic and demographic transition, and … the role of mortality differences for comparative development. The framework can replicate the quantitative patterns in …

process of development. The model generates an endogenous transition from a regime characterized by limited human capital … formation, little longevity, high child mortality, large fertility and a sluggish income and productivity growth to a modern … growth regime in which lower net fertility is associated with the acquisition of human capital and improved living standards …