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008 050928s2005 mau sb 000 0 eng
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100 1 $aLorentzen, Peter Lombard.
245 10 $aDeath and development$h[electronic resource] /$cPeter Lorentzen, John McMillan, Romain Wacziarg.
260 $aCambridge, MA :$bNational Bureau of Economic Research,$cc2005.
490 1 $aNBER working paper series ;$vworking paper 11620
538 $aSystem requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.
538 $aMode of access: World Wide Web.
500 $aTitle from PDF file as viewed on 9/28/2005.
530 $aAlso available in print.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 3 $a"Analyzing a variety of cross-national and sub-national data, we argue that high adult mortality reduces economic growth by shortening time horizons. Higher adult mortality is associated with increased levels of risky behavior, higher fertility, and lower investment in physical and human capital. Furthermore, the feedback effect from economic prosperity to better health care implies that mortality could be the source of a poverty trap. In our regressions, adult mortality explains almost all of Africa's growth tragedy. Our analysis also underscores grim forecasts of the long-run economic costs of the ongoing AIDS epidemic"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
650 0 $aMortality$xEconomic aspects$zDeveloping countries.
650 0 $aMortality$xEconomic aspects$zAfrica.
650 0 $aAIDS (Disease)$xEconomic aspects$zAfrica.
700 1 $aMcMillan, John,$d1951-2007.
700 1 $aWacziarg, Romain.
710 2 $aNational Bureau of Economic Research.
830 0 $aWorking paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;$vworking paper no. 11620.
856 40 $uhttp://papers.nber.org/papers/W11620