| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP7384 |
| DP7384 Cannabis Use and Mental Health Problems | |
| Jan C. van Ours; Jenny Williams | |
| 发表日期 | 2009-07-26 |
| 出版年 | 2009 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | In this paper we investigate the causal effect of life expectancy on economic growth by explicitly accounting for the role of the demographic transition. In addition to focusing on issues of empirical identification, this paper emphasizes the role of the econometric specification. We present a simple theory of the economic and demographic transition where individuals' education and fertility decisions depend on their life expectancy. The theory predicts that before the demographic transition improvements in life expectancy primarily increase population. Improvements in life expectancy do, however, reduce population growth and foster human capital accumulation after the onset of the demographic transition. This implies that the effect of life expectancy on population, human capital and income per capita is not the same before and after the demographic transition. Moreover, a sufficiently high life expectancy is ultimately the trigger of the transition to sustained income growth. We provide evidence supporting these predictions using data on exogenous mortality reductions in the context of the epidemiological revolution. |
| 主题 | Development Economics ; Labour Economics |
| 关键词 | Demographic transition Epidemiological revolution Heterogeneous treatment effects Life expectancy |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp7384 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/536221 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Jan C. van Ours,Jenny Williams. DP7384 Cannabis Use and Mental Health Problems. 2009. |
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