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Replication Data for: "Epidemic Shocks and Civil Violence: Evidence from Malaria Outbreaks in Africa"
No full textCervellati, Matteo, Esposito, Elena, and Sunde, Uwe, (2022) “Epidemic Shocks and Civil Violence: Evidence from Malaria Outbreaks in Africa.” Review of Economics and Statistics 104:4, 780–796
The Demographic Transition and Long-Run Development
No full textThis chapter gives an overview of the role of the demographic transition and the non-linear dynamics in fertility
and mortality associated with this transition, for long-run development. The Chapter discusses the implications
for the transition from stagnation to sustained economic growth, to channels linking health improvements to
long-term development, and insights for the secular stagnation debate. The chapter finally provides a brief
overview of the chapters contained in this volume
Replication Data for "Temperature Extremes, Global Warming, and Armed Conflict New Insights From High Resolution Data"
No full textReplication package for
"Temperature Extremes, Global Warming, and Armed Conflict -- New Insights From High Resolution Data"
by Miriam Breckner and Uwe Sunde.
The replication package contains the following files:
- README file containing information about metadata:
BS_Replication_README.txt
- data set:
BS_replication_data.dta
Sources: See Breckner and Sunde (2019) for details.
- program for replication of analysis (STATA do-file):
BS_replication_code.d
Replication Data for "Temperature Extremes, Global Warming, and Armed Conflict New Insights From High Resolution Data"
No full textReplication package for
"Temperature Extremes, Global Warming, and Armed Conflict -- New Insights From High Resolution Data"
by Miriam Breckner and Uwe Sunde.
The replication package contains the following files:
- README file containing information about metadata:
BS_Replication_README.txt
- data set:
BS_replication_data.dta
Sources: See Breckner and Sunde (2019) for details.
- program for replication of analysis (STATA do-file):
BS_replication_code.d
Life expectancy, schooling, and lifetime labor supply: Theory and evidence revisited
Full text linkThis paper presents a theoretical and empirical analysis of the role of life expectancy for optimal schooling and lifetime labor supply. The results of a simple prototype Ben-Porath model with age-specific survival rates show that an increase in lifetime labor supply is not a necessary, nor a sufficient, condition for greater life expectancy to increase optimal schooling. The observed increase in survival rates during working ages that follows from the rectangularization of the survival function is crucial for schooling and labor supply. The empirical results suggest that the relative benefits of schooling have been increasing across cohorts of US men born 1840-1930. A simple quantitative analysis shows that a realistic shift in the survival function can lead to an increase in schooling and a reduction in lifetime labor hours
Replication Data for "Individual Life Horizon Influences Attitudes Toward Democracy"
No full textWe combine information from period life tables with individual survey response data spanning more than 260,000 observations from 93 countries over the period 1994-2014 to investigate whether and how the individual life horizon, in terms of the prospective length of life and age, affect individual attitudes toward democracy. The evidence shows that support for democracy increases with age, but declines with expected proximity to death
Replication Data for "Individual Life Horizon Influences Attitudes Toward Democracy"
No full textWe combine information from period life tables with individual survey response data spanning more than 260,000 observations from 93 countries over the period 1994-2014 to investigate whether and how the individual life horizon, in terms of the prospective length of life and age, affect individual attitudes toward democracy. The evidence shows that support for democracy increases with age, but declines with expected proximity to death
Replication Material for: Income Shocks, Inequality, and Democracy
No full textReplication data and cod
Civil conflict, democratization, and growth: Violent democratization as critical juncture
No full textIn this paper, we provide an empirical investigation of the interaction between violent conflicts, democratization, and growth in the “third wave” of democratization. The effect of democratization is weakened when taking into account the incidence of civil conflict. The results show that the growth effect of democratization is heterogeneous and depends on the democratization scenario. Peaceful transitions to democracy have a significant positive effect on growth that is even larger than reported previously in the literature, whereas violent transitions have no, or even negative, growth effects
The effect of life expectancy on education and population dynamics
No full textThe demographic transition represents a critical turning point for population dynamics and economic development. As a consequence, the effects of life expectancy on education and population dynamics are expected to change across different stages of demographic development. This paper tests this hypothesis empirically by exploiting exogenous within-country reductions in mortality as a result of the epidemiological transition after 1940 that have been applied in recent studies on the causal effects of life expectancy for income growth. The results document a pronounced heterogeneity, and relevant non-linearities, of the effects of life expectancy on schooling and population dynamics at different stages of the demographic transition
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