Disease and Development: The Effect of Life Expectancy on Economic Growth

By Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson. Journal of Political Economy, 2006

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Longevity and Lifetime Labor Supply: Evidence and Implications (2009, neutral): “See e.g., Acemoglu and Johnson (2006), Lorentzen, McMillan, and Wacziarg (2008) and Jayachandran and Lleras-Muney (2009). thereby on investment in schooling.6 Denote consumption at age t by c(t) and let the utility from consumption, u(c), be twice continuously differentiable, strictly increasing…”
Theory, General Equilibrium and Political Economy in Development Economics (2010, positive): “In this case, convincing micro or even macro (general 9 The conclusions may also depend on the fact that in Acemoglu and Johnson (2007), we focus on changes in health largely (though not solely) associated with mortality.”
Optimal Dynamic Carbon Taxes in a Climate–Economy Model with Distortionary Fiscal Policy (2019, methodology): “A "BAU + ’Wrong’Carbon Taxes + RR" scenario which is identical to (3) except that carbon taxes are set at first-best levels that would be optimal if there were no distortionary taxes.”
Life Expectancy and Human Capital Investments: Evidence from Maternal Mortality Declines. NBER Working Paper No. 13947. (2008, neutral): “Shastry and Weil (2003) and Lorentzen, McMillan and Wacziarg (2005) find large effects, while Acemoglu and Johnson (2006) find small effects. See also Weil (2007), Young (2005), Rodriguez and Sachs (1999), and Barro and Sala-i-Martin (1995). 2 We investigated other countries and time periods for whi”
Beyond GDP? Welfare Across Countries and Time (2016, background): “…countries, one could get a sense 19A large recent literature also emphasizes the possible causal links between health and growth: for example Acemoglu and Johnson (2007), Bleakley (2007), Weil (2007), Feyrer, Politi and Weil (2008), and Aghion, Howitt and Murtin (2010). for how badly this…”
Redistribution, inequality, and growth: new evidence (2018, background): “See also Li and Zhang (2007) and Acemoglu and Johnson (2007), who use various external instruments to identify independent negative effects of fertility and population growth on GDP per capita.”
The economic growth impact of tourism in Small Island Developing States—evidence from the Caribbean (2018, background): “Also included is life expectancy, which is deemed to have some (albeit weak) effect on economic growth (Acemoglu and Johnson, 2007).”
Long-Term Determinants of the Demographic Transition, 1870–2000 (2013, methodology): “As an alternative to mortality rates, life expectancy calculated by Acemoglu and Johnson (2007) and the United Nations (2006) is available from 1930 onward.”