Death and development

Lorentzen, Peter; McMillan, John; Wacziarg, Romain

doi:10.1007/s10887-008-9029-3

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“…Across countries Brander and Dowrick (1994) document a negative association between fertility and economic growth, Schultz (1997) finds that income per adult is negatively associated with mortality and positively with fertility, and Ahituv (2001) finds a negative association between fertility and income per capita. Lorentzen et al (2008) find a positive association between fertility and mortality and (indirectly) a negative association between fertility and economic growth. Without explicitly considering fertility, Acemoglu and Johnson (2007) observe a negative impact of life-expectancy on income per capita.…”

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The long-run determinants of fertility: one century of demographic change 1900–1999

2012

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We examine the long-run relationship between fertility, mortality, and income using panel cointegration techniques and the available data for the last century. Our main result is that mortality changes and growth of income contributed to the fertility transition. The fertility reduction triggered by falling mortality, however, is not enough to overcompensate the positive effect of falling mortality on population growth. This means that growth of income per capita is essential to explain the observed secular decline of population growth. These results are robust to alternative estimation methods, potential outliers, sample selection, different measures of mortality, the sample period, the inclusion of education as an explanatory variable, and the use of different data sets. In addition, our causality tests suggest that fertility changes are both cause and consequence of economic development.

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The long-run determinants of fertility: one century of demographic change 1900–1999

2012

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“…4 There is no consensus on the direction or even the existence of a correlation between life expectancy and economic growth. Shastry and Weil (2003), Weil (2007), Lorentzen, McMillan and Wacziarg (2008) find positive effects of life expectancy on economic growth, whereas, Acemoglu and Johnson (2007) find no effects.…”

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Left behind: intergenerational transmission of human capital in the midst of HIV/AIDS

Akbulut‐Yuksel

Turan

2012

J Popul Econ

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“…Additionally, people may start behaving recklessly because of what has been done to them, or when they expect that (next time) soon they might be killed or tortured. Lorentzen et al, (2008) for example find that people with lower life expectancy take more risk and invest less than others. Taking all of the above into consideration it thus comes as no surprise that civil wars are dubbed "development in reverse".…”

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A Phoenix in Flames? Portfolio Choice and Violence in Civil War in Rural Burundi

Nillesen

Verwimp

2010

SSRN Journal

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This paper challenges the idea that farmers revert to subsistence farming when confronted with violence from civil war. While there is an emerging macroeconomic consensus that wars are detrimental to development, we find contrasting microeconomic evidence. Using several rounds of (panel) data at the farm and community level, we find that farmers in Burundi who are confronted with civil war violence in their home communities increase export and cash crop growing activities, invest more in public goods and reveal higher levels subjective welfare evaluations. We interpret this in the light of similar recent micro-level evidence that points to post-traumatic growth effects after (civil) warfare. Our results are confirmed across specifications as well as in robustness analyses.

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Death and development

Abstract: Fertility, Growth, Human capital, Investment, Mortality, I10, J10, O10,

Cited by 368 publications

References 51 publications

The long-run determinants of fertility: one century of demographic change 1900–1999

The long-run determinants of fertility: one century of demographic change 1900–1999

Left behind: intergenerational transmission of human capital in the midst of HIV/AIDS

A Phoenix in Flames? Portfolio Choice and Violence in Civil War in Rural Burundi

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