TY - BOOK AU - Acemoglu,Daron AU - Fergusson,Leopoldo AU - Johnson,Simon ED - National Bureau of Economic Research. TI - Population and Civil War T2 - NBER working paper series PY - 2017/// CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - National Bureau of Economic Research N1 - April 2017; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers N2 - Medical and public health innovations in the 1940s quickly resulted in significant health improvements around the world. Countries with initially higher mortality from infectious diseases experienced greater increases in life expectancy, population, and - over the following 40 years - social conflict. This result is robust across alternative measures of conflict and is not driven by differential trends between countries with varying baseline characteristics. At least during this time period, a faster increase in population made social conflict more likely, probably because it increased competition for scarce resources in low income countries UR - https://www.nber.org/papers/w23322 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w23322 ER -