The 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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Cervellati, M., & Sunde, U. (2015). The effect of life expectancy on education and population dynamics. Empirical Economics, 48(4), 1445–1478. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-014-0830-x
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