John Luke Gallup

TL;DR: The authors investigate the ways in which geography may matter directly for growth, controlling for economic policies and institutions, as well as the effects of geography on policy choices and institutions and find that location and climate have large effects on income levels and income growth, through their effects on transport costs, disease burdens, and agricultural productivity.

TL;DR: It is speculated about the mechanisms that could cause malaria to have such a large impact on the economy, such as foreign investment and economic networks within the country, and a second independent measure of malaria has a slightly higher correlation with economic growth in the 1980-1996 period.

TL;DR: This paper showed that geographic location and climate have large effects on income levels and income growth through their effects on transport costs, disease burdens, and agricultural productivity, among other channels, and that a large portion of population growth over the next thirty years is expected to occur in these geographically disadvantaged regions.

TL;DR: The first public digital map of the world's human population appeared in 1995 and was used by Cohen et al. as discussed by the authors to obtain more precise estimates of coastal populations as of 1994.

TL;DR: The authors investigate the ways in which geography may matter directly for growth, controlling for economic policies and institutions, as well as the effects of geography on policy choices and institutions and find that location and climate have large effects on income levels and income growth, through their effects on transport costs, disease burdens, and agricultural productivity.