TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Cervellati, Matteo
AU  - Sunde, Uwe
        TI  - The Economic and Demographic Transition, Mortality, and Comparative Development
        PY  - 2013/Feb/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 7199
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp7199
        AB  - We propose a unified growth theory to investigate the mechanics generating the economic and demographic transition, and the role of mortality differences for comparative development. The framework can replicate the quantitative patterns in historical time series data and in contemporaneous cross-country panel data, including the bi-modal distribution of the endogenous variables across countries. The results suggest that differences in extrinsic mortality might explain a substantial part of the observed differences in the timing of the take-off across countries and the worldwide density distribution of the main variables of interest.
        KW  - development traps
KW  - economic and demographic transition
KW  - adult mortality
KW  - child mortality
KW  - quantitative analysis
KW  - unified growth model
KW  - heterogeneous human capital
KW  - comparative development
        ER  -