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According to Wikipedia, David Canning is a British economist. He is Richard Saltonstall Professor of Population Sciences and Professor of Economics and International Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Cambridge University and is deputy director of the Program on the Global Demography of Aging. Before assuming his role at the Harvard School of Public Health, Canning held faculty positions at the London School of Economics, Cambridge University, Columbia University, and Queen's University Belfast, where he received his B.A. in economics and mathematics.

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The Effect of Health on Economic Growth: A Production Function Approach (2004) (1281)
The Demographic Dividend: A New Perspective on the Economic Consequences of Population Change (2003) (1029)
Fertility, female labor force participation, and the demographic dividend (2007) (610)
The Health and Wealth of Nations (2000) (475)
Urbanization and the Wealth of Nations (2008) (413)
Longevity and Life-Cycle Savings (2002) (411)
Infrastructure, Long-Run Economic Growth and Causality Tests for Cointegrated Panels (2008) (406)
Higher Education and Economic Development in Africa (2006) (403)
Global Demographic Change: Dimensions and Economic Significance (2004) (387)
Implications of population ageing for economic growth (2011) (377)
Implications of Population Aging for Economic Growth (2010) (366)
Demographic Change, Social Security Systems, and Savings (2006) (365)
The Social Rate of Return on Infrastructure Investments (1999) (324)
The economic consequences of reproductive health and family planning (2012) (303)
Geography and Poverty Traps (2003) (267)
Universal features in the growth dynamics of complex organizations (1998) (263)
A database of world stocks of infrastructure for 1950-95 (1998) (244)
The association of maternal age with infant mortality, child anthropometric failure, diarrhoea and anaemia for first births: evidence from 55 low- and middle-income countries (2011) (240)
The Effect of Infrastructure on Long Run Economic Growth (2004) (239)
The effect of population health on foreign direct investment inflows to low- and middle-income countries (2006) (227)
Population dynamics and economic growth in Asia. (2000) (208)
The Health and Poverty of Nations: From theory to practice (2003) (207)
Disease and Development Revisited (2009) (204)
Infrastructure's Contribution to Aggregate Output (1999) (183)
Infrastructure and Long Run Economic Growth (1999) (173)
Scaling the volatility of GDP growth rates (1998) (167)
Health, Wealth, and Welfare (2004) (163)
Program on the Global Demography of Aging (2005) (156)
Health and Economic Growth: Reconciling the Micro and Macro Evidence (2019) (146)
The Effects of Transportation Networks on Economic Growth (1993) (146)
The Contribution of Population Health and Demographic Change to Economic Growth in China and India. (2010) (144)
Population health and economic growth (2008) (140)
A Database of World Infrastructure Stocks, 1950-95 (1998) (139)
Population Aging and Economic Growth in Asia (2010) (137)
Cumulative Causality, Economic Growth, and the Demographic Transition (2001) (131)
The Contribution of Infrastructure to Aggregate Output (1999) (129)
Population Aging and Economic Growth (2008) (125)
Correcting HIV Prevalence Estimates for Survey Nonparticipation Using Heckman-type Selection Models (2011) (120)
Does Age Structure Forecast Economic Growth? (2007) (114)
Cohort Profile: Health and Ageing in Africa: a Longitudinal Study of an INDEPTH Community in South Africa (HAALSI). (2018) (109)
Realizing the demographic dividend: Is Africa any different? (2007) (108)
Global Population Aging: Facts, Challenges, Solutions & Perspectives (2015) (107)
Commentary: The Preston Curve 30 years on: still sparking fires. (2007) (106)
Policy forum: public health. The health and wealth of nations. (2000) (104)
The economics of HIV/AIDS in low-income countries: the case for prevention. (2006) (98)
Rethinking the benefits and costs of childhood vaccination: the example of the Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccine. (2011) (90)
Effects of state-level public spending on health on the mortality probability in India. (2010) (88)
The Effect of Subjective Survival Probabilities on Retirement and Wealth in the United States (2006) (84)
Facility distance and child mortality: a multi-country study of health facility access, service utilization, and child health outcomes. (2016) (83)
The effect of vaccination on children's physical and cognitive development in the Philippines (2011) (81)
Contraception and the Celtic Tiger (2003) (78)
Vaccination and all-cause child mortality from 1985 to 2011: global evidence from the Demographic and Health Surveys. (2015) (78)
The height of women in Sub-Saharan Africa: The role of health, nutrition, and income in childhood (2007) (75)
Health as Human Capital and its Impact on Economic Performance (2003) (74)
The effect of changes in health sector resources on infant mortality in the short-run and the long-run: a longitudinal econometric analysis. (2009) (73)
The association between age, COVID-19 symptoms, and social distancing behavior in the United States (2010) (70)
Epidemics and Economics (2006) (70)
The Cost of Low Fertility in Europe (2009) (69)
The Effect of Improvements in Health and Longevity on Optimal Retirement and Saving (2004) (64)
The Effect of Population Health on Foreign Direct Investment (2004) (63)
Optimal Retirement with Increasing Longevity (2014) (62)
Health trends in Sub-Saharan Africa: conflicting evidence from infant mortality rates and adult heights. (2010) (60)
Priority setting and the 'neglected' tropical diseases. (2006) (57)
Average behavior in learning models (1992) (57)
Mortality traps and the dynamics of health transitions (2007) (56)
The greying of the global population and its macroeconomic consequences (2010) (56)
The causes and consequences of demographic transition (2011) (55)
Assessing the economic impact of HIV/AIDS on Nigerian households: a propensity score matching approach (2008) (53)
The Demographic Dividend (2003) (51)
Rationality, Computability, and Nash Equilibrium (1992) (50)
Increasing life expectancy and optimal retirement in general equilibrium (2014) (48)
Higher Education and Economic Growth in Africa (2014) (47)
National HIV prevalence estimates for sub-Saharan Africa: controlling selection bias with Heckman-type selection models (2012) (47)
The Health and Wealth of Africa (2004) (43)
The effect of maternal tetanus immunization on children's schooling attainment in Matlab, Bangladesh: follow-up of a randomized trial. (2011) (39)
Investing in health to improve the wellbeing of the disadvantaged: reversing the argument of Fair Society, Healthy Lives (the Marmot Review). (2010) (38)
The Effect of Fertility Decline on Economic Growth in Africa: A Macrosimulation Model (2017) (38)
Attributes of patient-centered primary care associated with the public perception of good healthcare quality in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and El Salvador. (2016) (38)
Accounting for the full benefits of childhood vaccination in South Africa. (2008) (37)
Progress in Health around the World (2012) (37)
Exposure to Ambient Fine Particulate Air Pollution in Utero as a Risk Factor for Child Stunting in Bangladesh (2017) (36)
Increasing Returns in Industry and the Role of Agriculture in Growth (1988) (35)
Institutionalizing postpartum intrauterine device (IUD) services in Sri Lanka, Tanzania, and Nepal: study protocol for a cluster-randomized stepped-wedge trial (2016) (34)
How Demographic Change can Bolster Economic Performance in Developing Countries (2003) (33)
New evidence coupled with a wider perspective suggest sizable economic returns to better health (2004) (33)
Early-life exposure to ambient fine particulate air pollution and infant mortality: pooled evidence from 43 low- and middle-income countries. (2019) (32)
Structural Stability Implies Robustness to Bounded Rationality (2001) (32)
Optimal Credit Rationing in Not-for-Profit Financial Institutions (2003) (32)
Demographics And Development Policy (2011) (31)
Distal Determinants of Fertility decline: Evidence from 640 Indian Districts (2016) (30)
Inferring the economic standard of living and health from cohort height: Evidence from modern populations in developing countries. (2015) (30)
A Theory of Retirement (2007) (28)
The Consequences of Population Health for Economic Performance (2006) (27)
Why Has China's Economy Taken Off Faster than India's? (2006) (27)
Fertility choice, mortality expectations, and interdependent preferences—An empirical analysis (2013) (27)
Demographic Change and Economic Growth in South Asia (2011) (27)
Global Demography: Fact, Force and Future (2006) (26)
The Macroeconomic and Welfare Implications of Rural Health Insurance and Pension Reforms in China. (2017) (26)
The Rate of Return to Transportation Infrastructure (2007) (25)
Difficulties with age estimation of internet images of south‐east Asian girls (2003) (25)
Booms, Busts, and Echoes: How the biggest demographic upheaval in history is affecting global development (2006) (24)
Access to healthcare and financial risk protection for older adults in Mexico: secondary data analysis of a national survey (2015) (24)
Do gifts increase consent to home-based HIV testing? A difference-in-differences study in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (2016) (23)
Northern Ireland: The Political Economy of Conflict. (1989) (23)
The effect of childhood measles vaccination on school enrolment in Matlab, Bangladesh (2015) (22)
Urban Settlement: Data, Measures, and Trends (2010) (22)
Convergence to Equilibrium in a Sequence for Games with Learning (1989) (22)
The Effects of Maternal Mortality on Infant and Child Survival in Rural Tanzania: A Cohort Study (2015) (21)
Using interviewer random effects to remove selection bias from HIV prevalence estimates (2015) (20)
Microeconomic Foundations of the Demographic Dividend (2012) (20)
Why do women discontinue contraception and what are the post-discontinuation outcomes? Evidence from the Arusha Region, Tanzania (2020) (18)
Axiomatic foundations for cost-effectiveness analysis. (2009) (17)
Demographic Change, Institutional Settings, and Labor Supply (2008) (17)
Integrating postpartum contraceptive counseling and IUD insertion services into maternity care in Nepal: results from stepped-wedge randomized controlled trial (2019) (17)
The distance-quality trade-off in women’s choice of family planning provider in North Eastern Tanzania (2020) (16)
Learning Language Conventions in Common Interest Signaling Games (1992) (15)
Health Inequalities in the South African elderly: The Importance of the Measure of Social-Economic Status. (2019) (15)
Longevity and Life Cycle Savings (2002) (15)
Can social policy influence socioeconomic disparities? Korean War GI Bill eligibility and markers of depression. (2016) (15)
Measuring health and economic wellbeing in the Sustainable Development Goals era: development of a poverty-free life expectancy metric and estimates for 90 countries. (2018) (15)
Estimating Household Permanent Income from Ownership of Physical Assets (2012) (15)
Social Interactions and Fertility in Developing Countries (2008) (15)
Reproductive Health Laws Around the World (2012) (14)
Location and content of counselling and acceptance of postpartum IUD in Sri Lanka (2017) (14)
Are There Spillover Effects from the GI Bill? The Mental Health of Wives of Korean War Veterans (2016) (13)
Higher Education and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa (2015) (13)
Health, Longevity, and Optimal Retirement (2004) (12)
Interviewer identity as exclusion restriction in epidemiology. (2011) (12)
The Economic Case for Expanding Vaccination Coverage of Children (2009) (12)
The Emergence of Three Human Development Clubs (2013) (12)
Demographic transition and economic opportunity: the case of Jordan. (2001) (12)
Global Demographic Change: Some Implications for Central Banks (2004) (12)
The Effect of Schooling on Teenage Fertility: Evidence from the 1994 Education Reform in Ethiopia (2016) (12)
The High Cost of Low Fertility in Europe (2008) (11)
Reframing the Measurement of Women’s Work in the Sub-Saharan African Context (2018) (11)
Accounting for non-response bias using participation incentives and survey design: An application using gift vouchers (2018) (11)
Adjusting HIV prevalence estimates for non-participation: an application to demographic surveillance (2015) (10)
Effect of a postpartum family planning intervention on postpartum intrauterine device counseling and choice: evidence from a cluster-randomized trial in Tanzania (2020) (10)
Rationality And Game Theory When Players Are Turing Machines (1988) (9)
The Effect of Social Security Reform on Male Retirement in High and Middle Income Countries (2009) (9)
The Mortality and Morbidity Transitions in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Adult Heights (2008) (8)
Short and long-term relationship between physician density on infant mortality: a longitudinal econometric analysis (2009) (7)
Community‐Based Financing of Family Planning in Developing Countries: A Systematic Review (2016) (7)
Increasing life expectancy and optimal retirement:does population aging necessarily undermine economic prosperity? (2012) (7)
Does family planning counseling reduce unmet need for modern contraception among postpartum women: Evidence from a stepped-wedge cluster randomized trial in Nepal (2021) (7)
The Effect of Improved Access to Family Planning on Postpartum Women: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial (2019) (7)
A New Health Opportunity (2001) (7)
The Family and Economic Development (1999) (6)
Demographic challenges, fiscal sustainability and economic growth (2006) (6)
Investing in Health to Improve the Wellbeing of the Disadvantaged: Reversing the Augment of the Marmot Reports (2011) (6)
The effect of a postpartum IUD intervention on counseling and choice: Evidence from a cluster-randomized stepped-wedge trial in Sri Lanka (2019) (6)
Determinants of short birth intervals among married women: a cross-sectional study in Karachi, Pakistan (2021) (6)
Contraceptive method use, discontinuation and failure rates among women aged 15–49 years: evidence from selected low income settings in Kumasi, Ghana (2021) (5)
Structural stability and robustness to bounded rationality (2000) (5)
Program on the Global Demography of Aging Harvard School of Public Health (2008) (5)
The impact of a personalized, community-based counselling and referral programme on modern contraceptive use in urban Ghana: a retrospective evaluation. (2020) (5)
Optimal Retirement and Saving with Increasing Longevity (2011) (5)
Impact of home-based family planning counselling and referral on modern contraceptive use in Karachi, Pakistan: a retrospective, cross-sectional matched control study (2020) (5)
Health Disparities and the Socioeconomic Gradient in Elderly Life-Cycle Consumption. (2019) (5)
Economic Development and the Demographic Transition : The Role of Cumulative Causality (2000) (5)
Methods women use for induced abortion and sources of services: insights from poor urban settlements of Accra, Ghana (2021) (5)
Estimating abortion prevalence and understanding perspectives of community leaders and providers: Results from a mixed-method study in Istanbul, Turkey (2020) (5)
Non-parametric estimation of data dimensionality prior to data compression: the case of the human development index (2013) (5)
The Effect of Antenatal Counseling and Intrauterine Device Insertion Services on Postpartum Contraceptive Use in Nepal: Results from a Stepped-Wedge Randomized Controlled Trial. (2020) (5)
Banking the “Demographic Dividend” (2002) (4)
Specialization, scale economies and economic development (1996) (4)
The association of in-utero exposure to ambient fine particulate air pollution with low birth weight in India (2021) (4)
The impact of tobacco taxes on mortality in the USA, 1970–2005 (2014) (4)
The economic impact of HIV/AIDS on Nigerian households (2007) (4)
An Application of the List Experiment to Estimate Abortion Prevalence in Karachi, Pakistan. (2020) (4)
Demographic Change, Fiscal Sustainability, and Macroeconomic Performance (2007) (4)
IS HUMAN DEVELOPMENT MULTIDIMENSIONAL (2013) (4)
Europes looming population bust. (2006) (4)
Estimating the lifetime incidence of induced abortion and understanding abortion practices in a Northeastern Tanzania community through a household survey. (2020) (4)
Inappropriate use of global health metrics for analysis of the determinants of health (2021) (3)
Colonial Origins and Fertility: Can the Market Overcome History? (2022) (3)
Health and Economic Growth : Reconciling the Micro and Macro Evidence February 2005 (2005) (3)
Valuing Lives Equally and Welfare Economics (2007) (3)
Effect of distance to health facilities and access to contraceptive services among urban Turkish women (2021) (3)
The Effect of Malaria on Settlement and Land Use: Evidence from the Brazilian Amazon (2011) (3)
The Effect of Subjective Survival Probabilities on Retirement and Wealth 1 (2006) (3)
Applying Inverse Probability Weighting to Measure Contraceptive Prevalence Using Data from a Community-Based Reproductive Health Intervention in Pakistan. (2020) (3)
The causal effect of a family planning intervention on women’s contraceptive use and birth spacing (2022) (3)
Behind the surprising stability of Romanian fertility. (1969) (3)
Contraceptive discontinuation and switching in urban Istanbul region in Turkey (2021) (3)
Chapter 4. Population, Poverty Reduction, and the Cairo Agenda (2009) (3)
Socioeconomic gradients in chronic disease risk behaviors in a population-based study of older adults in rural South Africa (2018) (3)
Banking the “Demographic Dividend”: How Population Dynamics Can Affect Economic Growth (2002) (3)
The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality (2015) (2)
Global Crises, Global Solutions: Disease control (2009) (2)
Provider and Women Characteristics as Risk Factors for Postpartum Copper IUD Expulsion and Discontinuation in Nepal. (2020) (2)
National Health Spending, Healthcare Resources, Service Utilization, and Health Outcomes. (2021) (2)
Chapter 15: Health and the Economy, 3rd Ed. (2011) (2)
The family planning "know-do" gap among married women of reproductive age in urban Pakistan. (2021) (2)
Health and the Economy, 2nd Ed. (2009) (2)
Association of Maternal Age with Infant Mortality, Child Anthropometric Failure, Diarrhoea, and Anaemia for First Births in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (2011) (2)
Economic Effects of the Demographic Dividend (2015) (2)
A Simulation Model of the Effect of Fertility Reduction on Economic Growth in Africa (2015) (2)
Using Interviewer Random Effects to Calculate Unbiased HIV Prevalence Estimates in the Presence of Non-Response: a Bayesian Approach (2013) (2)
Understanding family planning decision-making: perspectives of providers and community stakeholders from Istanbul, Turkey (2021) (2)
The Economics of Fertility Timing: An Euler Equation Approach (2014) (2)
Understanding the Pathways from Prenatal and Post-Birth PM2.5 Exposure to Infant Death: An Observational Analysis Using US Vital Records (2011–2013) (2021) (2)
Dynamics of Emergency Contraceptive Use in Accra, Ghana. (2021) (1)
Adjusting for non-participation bias at an HIV surveillance site in rural South Africa (2015) (1)
Ethnolinguistic Concordance and the Receipt of Postpartum IUD Counseling Services in Sri Lanka. (2018) (1)
Fertility, the Demographic Dividend, and Economic Growth 1 (2008) (1)
Gradients in South Africa : Inequalities in the Measure of the Beholder (2017) (1)
XXI. POPULATION, POVERTY REDUCTION AND THE ICPD PROGRAMME OF ACTION (2005) (1)
Provider perspectives in implementing the Postpartum Intrauterine Device Initiative in Sri Lanka: a qualitative study (2020) (1)
Proximate and distal factors associated with the stall in the decline of adolescent pregnancy in Uganda (2021) (1)
Unwanted Family Planning: Prevalence Estimates for 56 Countries. (2023) (1)
Pension exposure and health: Evidence from a longitudinal study in South Africa (2022) (1)
Determinants of Short Birth Intervals among married women in Karachi, Pakistan (2020) (1)
The Long-run Impact of Changing Fertility in China Preliminary draft (2016) (1)
A Macrosimulation Model of the Effect of Fertility on Economic Growth: Evidence from Nigeria (2015) (1)
Random Effects to Calculate Unbiased HIV Prevalence Estimates in the Presence of Non-Response : a Bayesian Approach February 2013 (2013) (0)
CHAPTER 13 Population Aging and Economic Growth (2010) (0)
Health Human Capital in Developing Countries: Evidence from Infant Mortality Rates and Adult Heights Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies Harvard School of Public Health (2009) (0)
Abstracts - USICON 2019 (2019) (0)
Conducting household surveys on reproductive health in urban settings: lessons from Karachi, Pakistan (2020) (0)
Explaining Economic Growth (1993) (0)
Does cosmopolitan culture weaken ethnic and regional diversity: contraceptive behaviours of women in Istanbul, Turkey (2021) (0)
Practice of Epidemiology Vaccination and All-Cause Child Mortality From 1985 to 2011: Global Evidence From the Demographic and Health Surveys (2015) (0)
The effect of health improvements due to tobacco control on earnings in the United States (2013) (0)
Random Effects to Calculate Unbiased HIV Prevalence Estimates in the Presence of Non-Response : a Bayesian Approach September 2013 (2013) (0)
The State of Demographics in Sub-Saharan Africa (2015) (0)
Education Effects of the Demographic Dividend (2015) (0)
Reversing the rise in midlife mortality (2020) (0)
Longevity and Social Welfare in Singapore (2018) (0)
Adding measurement error to location data to protect subject confidentiality while allowing for consistent estimation of exposure effects (2020) (0)
INVENTORY CYCLES, DISEQUILIBRIUM DYNAMICS AND EFFECTIVE DEMAND (1990) (0)
CHAPTER 3 Population Health and Economic Growth (2009) (0)
Le “bonus demographique:” Comment les dynamiques de population peuvent influencer la croisssance economique: [Banking the “Demographic Dividend” How Population Dyanamics Can Effect Economic Growth] (2003) (0)
Optimal Monetary Policy with Missing Markets (1989) (0)
Effects of Pension Eligibility Expansion on Men's Cognitive Function: Findings from Rural South Africa. (2023) (0)
THE EDUCATION-HEALTH GRADIENT AND PATHWAYS TO MORTALITY (2019) (0)
Working Paper Series Epidemics and Economics (2006) (0)
Capitalizando el “Bono Demografico:” Como la dinamica demografica puede afectar al crecimiento economico: [Banking the “Demographic Dividend:” How Population Dynamics Can Affect Economic Growth] (2003) (0)
Review Essay The causes and consequences of demographic transition (2011) (0)
Consulting Assistance on Economic Reform II DISCUSSION PAPERS Discussion Paper 57 Infrastructure and Long Run Economic Growth (1999) (0)
Fertility transition in India: sub-regional evidence]La transition de la fécondité dans les districts indiens (2020) (0)
Exploring the Relationship between Anemia and Postpartum Depression: Evidence from Malawi (2023) (0)
OPTIMAL MONETARY POLICY AND MISSING MARKETS (1989) (0)
Living Longer. (1953) (0)
Random Effects to Calculate Unbiased HIV Prevalence Estimates in the Presence of Non-Response : a Bayesian Approach Preliminary Draft September 2012 (2012) (0)
Health Human Capital in Sub-Saharan Africa: Conflicting Evidence from Infant Mortality Rates and Adult Heights (2011) (0)
Monetary Policy versus Wage Adjustment as a Response to Demand Shocks (1988) (0)
The Emergence of Three Human Development Clubs Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters (2013) (0)
Distance-quality trade-off and choice of family planning provider in urban Pakistan. (2022) (0)
The Macroeconomic and Welfare Implications of China ’ s Rural Healthcare and Pension Reforms (2015) (0)
Bottlenecks and persistent unemployment : Why do booms end? (1989) (0)
Power Laws and the Mega-Idiosyncratic Origins of Aggregate Fluctuations Xavier (2004) (0)
Price Setting General Equilibrium with Intermediate Goods (2004) (0)
The impact of a randomized cash transfer intervention on mortality of adult household members in rural South Africa, 2011-2022. (2023) (0)
Increasing life expectancy and optimal retirement in general equilibrium (2013) (0)
Are firms willing to employ a greying and feminizing workforce? (2012) (0)
The Macroeconomic and Welfare Implications of China ’ s Rural Health Insurance and Pension Reforms (2016) (0)
Social Security, Institutional Settings, and Labor Supply 1 (2008) (0)
Optimal monetary policy in an economy without a forward market for labour (1988) (0)
The Effect of Family Planning Counseling on Incident Pregnancy in Nepal. (2022) (0)
Accounting for Non-Ignorable Missing Data using Participation Incentives and Survey Design∗ (2015) (0)
Rationality, Computability And The Limits Of Game Theory (1990) (0)
Expenditures on HIV/AIDS and their policy implications (2006) (0)
Speeding the Demographic Transition (2015) (0)

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