Urbanization and Mortality Decline

Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay () and Elliott Green

No 46, Working Papers from Queen Mary, University of London, School of Business and Management, Centre for Globalisation Research

Abstract: We investigate the relationship between mortality decline and urbanization, which has hitherto been proposed by demographers but has yet to be tested. Using pooled-OLS, fixed effects first differences and long differences we find evidence for a robust negative correlation between crude death rates and urbanization. The use of Granger causality tests and instrumental variables suggest that this relationship is causal. Our preliminary results suggest that mortality decline causes urbanization through the creation of new cities rather than promoting urban growth in already-extant cities.

Keywords: Urbanization; Mortality Decline; Demography; Population Growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J11 N90 O18 R00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-11
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