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Is inequality largely the result of the Industrial Revolution? Or, were pre-industrial incomes and life expectancies as unequal as they are today? For want of sufficient data, these questions have not yet been answered. This paper infers inequality for 14 ancient, pre-industrial societies using...
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reduction that can be largely attributed to the substantial progress made in reducing child mortality worldwide. We also observe …
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Monitoring health is key for identifying priorities in public health planning and improving healthcare services. Life expectancy has conventionally been regarded as a valuable indicator to compare the health status of different populations. However, this measure is simply the mean of the...
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We address the role that deep, structural factors may have as determinants of Mexico's economic growth. We argue that … Mexico's poor growth performance appears to be associated not only with shorter-run events such as the "lost decade" of the … eighties, but also with supply-side features of the economy that have been present for at least four decades. Mexico's low …
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