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Population aging, retirement, and aggregate productivity

Gründler, Klaus; Potrafke, Niklas - 2023

Most industrialized countries today are facing historical demographic changes, paring increasing retirement with a declining labor force. We study the consequences of an increasing pensioner-worker ratio in a macroeconomic framework, which suggests a negative effect on total factor productivity....

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Physiological constraints and comparative economic development

Dalgaard, Carl-Johan; Strulik, Holger - 2017

It is a well known fact that economic development and distance to the equator are positively correlated variables in the world today. It is perhaps less well known that as recently as 1500 C.E. it was the other way around. The present paper provides a theory of why the "latitude gradient"...

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Climate changes affect human capital

Caruso, Germán; De Marcos, Inés; Noy, Ilan - 2023

Climate change severely impacts critical facets of human capital across the life cycle. This is particularly alarming as both the frequency and intensity of extreme weather shocks continue to increase, and extremes appear to be the main channel of causality. At the same time, human capital has a...

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The effects of the 2010 Haiti earthquake on children's nutrition and education

Dodlova, Marina; Escobar Carias, Michelle; Grimm, Michael - 2023

We assess the impact of the 2010 Haiti earthquake on children's nutrition and education. We combine geo-coded shaking … education. The results are robust to alternative specifications and different measures of exposure to the earthquake. Our … education. Reduced children's health and education will have lasting private and social costs, which could easily exceed the …

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Health dynamics shape life-cycle incomes

Kotschy, Rainer - 2019

This paper empirically investigates the long-run effects of major health improvements on income growth in the United States. To isolate exogenous changes in health, the econometric model uses quasi-experimental variation in cardiovascular disease mortality across states over time. The results...

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Longevity shocks with age-dependent productivity growth

Heijdra, Ben J.; Reijnders, Laurie S. M. - 2015

The aim of this paper is to study the long-run effects of a longevity increase on individual decisions about education …

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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...

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Mothers' care : reversing early childhood health shocks through parental investments

Bellés-Obrero, Cristina; Cabrales, Antonio; … - 2019

We explore the effects of a child labor regulation that changed the legal working age from 14 to 16 over the health of their offspring. We show that the reform was detrimental for the health of the son's of affected parents at delivery. Yet, in the medium run, the effects of the reform are...

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Demographic transition and political stability : does corruption matter?

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Witthuhn, Stefan - 2014

A demographic transition resulting from an increase in the size of the young working age population can be a blessing or a curse for economic performance. We focus on the political stability effects of a larger youth population and hypothesize that corruption matters in this nexus. Using panel...

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Bismarck's Health Insurance and the mortality decline

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Driva, Anastasia; Hornung, Erik - 2017 - This version: August 3, 2017

We investigate the impact on mortality of the world's first compulsory health insurance, established by Otto von Bismarck, Chancellor of the German Empire, in 1884. Employing a multi-layered empirical setup, we draw on international comparisons and difference-indifferences strategies using...

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