Postwar Mortality Decline and Economic Growth in Industrialized Countries: A Puzzle
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Both life span and income are key dimensions of well-being, and they are also essential products of economic growth and development. Other things equal, theory suggests that similar economies should accumulate life span and income in similar proportions. But the last several decades have brought uneven patterns in relative accumulations of income and life expectancy among industrialized nations. This paper documents heterogeneous combinations of economic growth and mortality decline among 14 high-income countries since 1960, and it shows that they cannot be explained by any of the available time-series data: education, income inequality, health spending, smoking, or diet. Why some rich countries are becoming longer lived and presumably healthier on average than others is an unresolved puzzle that future research efforts must address.
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