TY  - JOUR
AU  - Banerjee, Abhijit V
AU  - Duflo, Esther
TI  - Aging and Death under a Dollar a Day
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 13683
PY  - 2007
Y2  - December 2007
DO  - 10.3386/w13683
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w13683
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w13683.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Abhijit Banerjee
Department of Economics, E52-540
MIT
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
Tel: 617/253-8855
Fax: 617/253-1330
E-Mail: banerjee@mit.edu

Esther Duflo
Department of Economics, E52-544
MIT
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
Tel: 617/258-7013
E-Mail: eduflo@mit.edu
M1  - published as Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo. "Aging and Death under a Dollar a Day," in David A. Wise, editor, "Research Findings in the Economics of Aging" University of Chicago Press (2010)

M3  - presented at "Economics of Aging", May 11 - December 0, 2007
AB  - 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.
ER  -