Disease and Development: A Reply to Bloom, Canning, and Fink
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Acemoglu, K. Daron
Johnson, Simon
Date Issued
December 2014
Journal
Journal of Political Economy
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University of Chicago Press
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Acemoglu, Daron, and Simon Johnson. “Disease and Development: A Reply to Bloom, Canning, and Fink.” Journal of Political Economy 122.6 (2014): 1367–1375. © 2014 The University of Chicago
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Abstract
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).
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Sloan School of Management
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https://doi.org/10.1086/677190
