Disease and Development: A Reply to Bloom, Canning, and Fink

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 Jo...

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Main Authors: Acemoglu, Daron (Contributor), Johnson, Simon (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics (Contributor), Sloan School of Management (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Chicago Press, 2015-09-22T18:46:07Z.
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