Aging and death under a dollar a day
By: Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo.
Contributors: Duflo, Esther, 1972-; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 13683; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 13683.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "This paper uses household survey data form several developing countries to investigate whether the poor (defined as those living under $1 or $2 dollars a day at PPP) and the non poor have different mortality rates in old age.  We construct a proxy measure of longevity, which is the probability that an adult's mother and father are alive.  The non-poor's mothers are more likely to be alive than the poor's mothers.  Using panel data set for Indonesia and Vietnam, we also find that older adults are significantly more likely to have died five years later if they are poor.  The direction of causality is unclear: the poor may be poor because they are sick (and thus more likely to die), or they could die because they are poor"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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