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Health, Demographic Transition and Economic Growth
Jorgensen, Ole Hagen - 2017
This paper develops a link between four central components of the demographic transition: survival rates; fertility decisions; altruistic intergenerational transfers from workers toward their parents; and economic growth. An increase in child survival is found to reduce the fertility rate and...
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Trends and Socioeconomic Gradients in Adult Mortality Around the Developing World
de Walque, Damien - 2017
differences in adult mortality, calculating mortality based on the sibling mortality reports collected from female respondents … aged 15-49. The analysis yields four main findings. First, adult mortality is different from child mortality: while under-5 … mortality shows a definite improving trend over time, adult mortality does not, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. The second …
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Covid-19 Mortality in Rich and Poor Countries : A Tale of Two Pandemics?
Schellekens, Philip - 2020
applies not just to the vulnerable in the rich world; the vulnerable in the rest of the world are not more immune. Yet …, despite the extensive spread of the virus, the mortality toll remains highly concentrated in high-income countries. Developing … inequality creates the impression that the world is subjected to two different pandemics in terms of their impact. This paper …
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Measuring Ancient Inequality
Milanovic, Branko - 2016
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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A Kleptocrat's Survival Guide : Autocratic Longevity in the Face of Civil Conflict
Milante, Gary - 2016
Autocratic regimes are quite often short-lived kleptocracies formed and maintained through force and used to appropriate wealth from subjects. Some of these autocracies collapse after only a year or two of plundering while others manage to survive for 15 or 20 years. This paper asks why some...
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Longevity and Lifetime Education : Global Evidence from 919 Surveys
Hoque, Mohammad Mainul - 2017
Data from 919 household surveys conducted between 1960 and 2012, spanning 147 economies, are used to evaluate the relationship between rising life expectancy at birth and lifetime years of schooling for successive birth cohorts between 1905 and 1988. The study finds significant positive effects...
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On the Impact of Demographic Change on Growth, Savings, and Poverty
Cruz, Marcio - 2017
Changing population age structures are shaping the trajectories of development in many countries, bringing opportunities and challenges. While aging has been a matter of concern for upper-middle and high-income economies, rapid population growth is set to continue in the poorest countries over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968199
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Demographic Change and Development : A Global Typology
Ahmed, S. Amer - 2017
of elderly in the world, and below-replacement fertility rates since at least the 1980s. The typology helps identify …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012967334
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Chronic Diseases and Labor Market Outcomes in Egypt
Rocco, Lorenzo - 2017
By causing a sizeable reduction in employment 6 percent and labor supply 19 percent, chronic diseases are responsible for a major efficiency loss in the Egyptian economy. Furthermore the impact of chronic diseases on the labor market is not uniformly distributed. The older and the less educated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976147
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Health Shocks in China : Are the Poor and Uninsured Less Protected?
Lindelow, Magnus - 2017
Health shocks have been shown to have important economic consequences in industrial countries. Less is known about how health shocks affect income, consumption, labor market outcomes, and medical expenditures in middle- and low-income countries. The authors explore these issues in China. In...
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