Disease and development: The role of life expectancy reconsidered

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Journal: Economics Letters
Year: 2011
Volume: 113
Issue: 3
Pages: 269-272

Authors (2)

Cervellati, Matteo (not in RePEc) Sunde, Uwe (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität...)

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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).

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RePEc Handle
repec:eee:ecolet:v:113:y:2011:i:3:p:269-272
Journal Field
General
Author Count
2
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2026-01-25