Arbeitspapier
Geography, Health, and the Pace of Demo-Economic Development
This paper investigates the impact of subsistence consumption and extrinsic and intrinsic causes of child mortality on fertility and child expenditure. It offers a theory for why mankind multiplies at higher rates at geographically unfavorable, tropical locations. Placed into a macroeconomic framework this behavior creates an indirect channel through which geography shapes economic performance. It is explained why it are countries of low absolute latitude where we observe exceedingly slow (if not stalled) economic development and demographic transition.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Diskussionsbeitrag ; No. 361
Demographic Economics: General
Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
Geography
Health
Nutrition
Cross-Country Divergence
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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20.09.2024, 08:24 MESZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Strulik, Holger
- Leibniz Universität Hannover, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät
Entstanden
- 2007