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once it begins. Globally, long-term vulnerability to epidemics may decrease as development standards rise, but a more …
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growth and development: the age structure of the population is also fundamentally important. …
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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...
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The proportion of a country's population living in urban areas is highly correlated with its level of income. Urban areas offer economies of scale and richer market structures, and there is strong evidence that workers in urban areas are individually more productive, and earn more, than rural...
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