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Disease and Development: The Effect of Life Expectancy on Economic Growth
What is the effect of increasing life expectancy on economic growth? To answer this question, we exploit the international epidemiological transition, the wave of international health innovations and improvements that began in the 1940s. We obtain estimates of mortality by disease before the 1940s f...
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BREAD Working Paper No. 120
2006
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| Online Access: | http://10.26.1.76/ks/001094.pdf |