Geography, health, and the pace of demo-economic development

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Strulik, Holger
• 署名单位: Leibniz University Hannover
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0304-3878
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2007.03.004
• 发表日期: 2008
• 页码: 61-75
• 关键词: demographic transition; geography; HEALTH; nutrition; cross-country divergence

摘要

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. (C) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.