This note estimates the causal effect of life expectancy on per capita income and tests the hypothesis of a non-monotonic effect using finate mixture models. The results confirm the hypothesis and qualify the recent evidence for a negative effect by Acemoglu and Johnson (2007).
Disease and Development: The Role of Life Expectancy Reconsidered / Cervellati M.; Sunde U.. - In: ECONOMICS LETTERS. - ISSN 0165-1765. - STAMPA. - 113(3):(2011), pp. 269-272. [10.1016/j.econlet.2011.08.008]
Disease and Development: The Role of Life Expectancy Reconsidered
CERVELLATI, MATTEO;SUNDE, UWE
2011
Abstract
This note estimates the causal effect of life expectancy on per capita income and tests the hypothesis of a non-monotonic effect using finate mixture models. The results confirm the hypothesis and qualify the recent evidence for a negative effect by Acemoglu and Johnson (2007).File in questo prodotto:
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