Disease and development: The role of life expectancy reconsidered

Matteo Cervellati and Uwe Sunde

Munich Reprints in Economics from University of Munich, Department of Economics

Abstract: This note estimates the causal effect of life expectancy on per capita income and tests the hypothesis of a non-monotonic effect using finite mixture models. The results confirm the hypothesis and qualify recent evidence for a negative effect by Acemoglu and Johnson (2007).

Date: 2011
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Published in Economics Letters 3 113(2011): pp. 269-272

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