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Disease and Development: A Reply to Bloom, Canning, and Fink / Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Acemoglu, Daron.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w20064.
- NBER working paper series no. w20064
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Disease and Development
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2014.
- Summary:
- Bloom, Canning, and Fink (2014) argue that the results in Acemoglu and Johnson (2006, 2007) are not robust because initial level of life expectancy (in 1940) should be included in our regressions of changes in GDP per capita on changes in life expectancy. We assess their claims controlling for potential lagged effects of initial life expectancy using data from 1900, employing a nonlinear estimator suggested by their framework, and using information from microeconomic estimates on the effects of improving health. There is no evidence for a positive effect of life expectancy on GDP per capita in this important historical episode.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- April 2014.
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