TY  - JOUR
AU  - Fogel,Robert W.
TI  - The Relevance of Malthus for the Study of Mortality Today: Long-Run Influences on Health, Mortality, Labor Force Participation, and Population Growth
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Historical Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 54
PY  - 1994
Y2  - March 1994
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/h0054
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/h0054.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Robert W. Fogel
Director,  Center for Population Economics
University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
5807 S. Woodlawn Avenue, Suite 367
Chicago, IL  60637
Tel: 773/702-7709
Fax: 773/702-2901
E-Mail: rwf@cpe.uchicago.edu
AB  - This paper argues that the secular decline in mortality, which began during the eighteenth century, is still in progress and will probably continue for another century or more.  The evolutionary perspective presented in this paper focuses not only on the environment, which from the standpoint of human health and prosperity has become much more favorable than it was in Malthus's time, but also on changes in human physiology over the past three centuries which affect both economic and biomedical processes.  A great deal of emphasis is placed on the interconnectedness of events and process over the life cycle and, by implication, between generations.
ER  -