Escaping high mortality
Escaping high mortality
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DOI：
10.1007/s10887-007-9022-2
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发表时间：
2007-12-01
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
Birchenall, Javier A.
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作者：
Birchenall, Javier A.
本文对死亡率进行了经济分析，以解释人口转变期间死亡率下降的原因。我们提出了一个统一的增长模型，在该模型中存在代内和代间的健康传递：父母的健康影响儿童的生存，早期生活的投资改善了整个生命周期的健康。基于1640年至2000年英格兰和威尔士的数据，我们发现经济变化对死亡率的影响比之前估计的要大。与目前的估计一样，当代收入对死亡率变化的影响很小。然而，大多数经济影响都没有被当代的关系所解释。
This paper develops an economic analysis of mortality to account for the mortality decline during the demographic transition. We propose a unified growth model in which there is intra- and intergenerational health transmission: parental health affects child survival and investments in early life improve health over the entire life-cycle. Based on data from England and Wales between 1640 and 2000, we show that the role of economic changes in mortality is larger than previously estimated. As in current estimates, contemporary income has a minor impact on mortality change. Most of the economic influences, however, are unaccounted for by contemporary relationships.