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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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Autor principal: Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson
Formato: Printed Book
Publicado em: BREAD Working Paper No. 120 2006
Acesso em linha:http://10.26.1.76/ks/001094.pdf