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008 080605s2007 mau sb 000 0 eng
010 $a 2008612437
040 $aDLC$cDLC
050 00 $aHB1
100 1 $aBanerjee, Abhijit V.
245 10 $aAging and death under a dollar a day$h[electronic resource] /$cAbhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo.
260 $aCambridge, MA :$bNational Bureau of Economic Research,$cc2007.
490 1 $aNBER working paper series ;$vworking paper 13683
538 $aSystem requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.
538 $aMode of access: World Wide Web.
500 $aTitle from PDF file as viewed on 6/5/2008.
530 $aAlso available in print.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 3 $a"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.
700 1 $aDuflo, Esther,$d1972-
710 2 $aNational Bureau of Economic Research.
830 0 $aWorking paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;$vworking paper no. 13683.
856 40 $uhttp://papers.nber.org/papers/w13683