Disease and Development: A Reply to Bloom, Canning, and Fink
Beginning in the 1940s, a wave of health innovations and more effective international public health measures led to a rapid and large improvement in health; for example, in some relatively poor countries, life expectancy at birth quickly rose from around 40 years to over 60 years. In Acemoglu and Jo...
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| description | Beginning in the 1940s, a wave of health innovations and more effective international public health measures led to a rapid and large improvement in health; for example, in some relatively poor countries, life expectancy at birth quickly rose from around 40 years to over 60 years. In Acemoglu and Johnson (2006, 2007), we constructed an instrument for these changes in life expectancy: “predicted mortality,” which is calculated from initial mortality by disease and the timing of global disease interventions. Across a wide range of specifications, our work suggests no positive effects—over 40- or 60-year horizons—of life expectancy on GDP per capita (or GDP per working-age population). |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/988722022-09-26T11:53:09Z Disease and Development: A Reply to Bloom, Canning, and Fink Acemoglu, Daron Johnson, Simon Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics Sloan School of Management Acemoglu, Daron Johnson, Simon Beginning in the 1940s, a wave of health innovations and more effective international public health measures led to a rapid and large improvement in health; for example, in some relatively poor countries, life expectancy at birth quickly rose from around 40 years to over 60 years. In Acemoglu and Johnson (2006, 2007), we constructed an instrument for these changes in life expectancy: “predicted mortality,” which is calculated from initial mortality by disease and the timing of global disease interventions. Across a wide range of specifications, our work suggests no positive effects—over 40- or 60-year horizons—of life expectancy on GDP per capita (or GDP per working-age population). 2015-09-22T18:46:07Z 2015-09-22T18:46:07Z 2014-12 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 00223808 1537534X http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/98872 Acemoglu, Daron, and Simon Johnson. “Disease and Development: A Reply to Bloom, Canning, and Fink.” Journal of Political Economy 122, no. 6 (December 2014): 1367–1375. © 2014 The University of Chicago https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0908-7491 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3354-7155 en_US http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/677190 Journal of Political Economy Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf University of Chicago Press MIT web domain |
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