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Health and Economic Growth: Reconciling the Micro and Macro Evidence
Bloom, David E.; Canning, David; Kotschy, Rainer; … - 2022
Economists use micro-based and macro-based approaches to assess the macroeconomic return to population health. The macro-based approach tends to yield estimates that are either negative and close to zero or positive and an order of magnitude larger than the range of estimates derived from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013353418
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Population Aging and Economic Growth: From Demographic Dividend to Demographic Drag?
Kotschy, Rainer; Bloom, David E. - 2023
This paper examines the extent to which changes in working-age shares associated with population aging might slow economic growth in upcoming years. We first analyze the economic effects of changing working-age shares in a standard empirical growth model using country panel data from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377587
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Pandemics, places, and populations: evidence from the Black Death
Jedwab, Remi; Johnson, Noel D.; Koyama, Mark - 2019
The Black Death killed 40% of Europe’s population between 1347-1352, making it one of the largest shocks in the history of mankind. Despite its historical importance, little is known about its spatial effects and the effects of pandemics more generally. Using a novel dataset that provides...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018215
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Pandemics, Places, and Populations : Evidence from the Black Death
Jedwab, Remi - 2019
The Black Death killed 40% of Europe’s population between 1347-1352, making it one of the largest shocks in the history of mankind. Despite its historical importance, little is known about its spatial effects and the effects of pandemics more generally. Using a novel dataset that provides...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012891571
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Health and Economic Growth : Reconciling the Micro and Macro Evidence
Bloom, David E.; Kotschy, Rainer; Prettner, Klaus; … - 2022
Economists use micro-based and macro-based approaches to assess the macroeconomic return to population health. The macro-based approach tends to yield estimates that are either negative and close to zero or positive and an order of magnitude larger than the range of estimates derived from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014081589
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Black and White Body Mass Index Values in Developing 19th Century Nebraska
Carson, Scott A. - 2013
Little is known about late 19th and early 20th century BMIs on the US Central Plains. Using data from the Nebraska state prison, this study demonstrates that the BMIs of dark complexioned blacks were greater than for fairer complexioned mulattos and whites. Although modern BMIs have increased,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317028
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The Quantitative Importance of Openness in Development
Cai, Wenbiao; Ravikumar, B.; Riezman, Raymond - 2013
stagnation in a traditional technology to industrialization and prosperity with a modern technology - be accelerated? Lewis (1954 …) and Rostow (1956) argue that the pace of industrialization is limited by the rate of capital formation which in turn is … an open economy increases the rate of capital formation and speeds up the pace of industrialization relative to a closed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323033
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Regional Inequality, Convergence, and its Determinants - A View from Outer Space
Lessmann, Christian; Seidel, André - 2015
This paper provides a new data set of regional income inequalities within countries based on satellite nighttime light data. We first empirically study the relationship between luminosity data and regional incomes for those countries where regional income data are available. We subsequently use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010531799
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The Bounty of the Sea and Long-Run Development
Dalgaard, Carl-Johan; Knudsen, Anne Sofie B.; Selaya, Pablo - 2015
What is the long run impact on development from differences in subsistence strategies during pre-industrial times? Whereas this question has been explored from the point of view of agriculture, remarkably little attention has been paid to the complementary strategy of relying on marine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388201
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The role of the state in economic development
Tabellini, Guido - 2004
This paper discusses the recent literature on the role of the state in economic development. It concludes that government incentives to enact sound policies are key to economic success. It also discusses the evidence on what happens after episodes of economic and political liberalizations,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261242