In this study, we investigate the effect of official development assistance and income per capita on health outcomes in … developing countries. Health outcome is proxied by life expectancy and under-5-mortality rate. We accounted for the endogeneity … official development assistance does not improve health outcome in developing countries, while income per capital significantly …

Obesity, as a health and social problem with rising prevalence and soaring economic cost, is increasingly drawing … obesity, empirical evidence on this causal relationship is fragile. Using the health capital development theory, this study …

This paper examines whether the relationship between traffic fatalities and per capita income is the same for different …) observed in high-income countries over recent decades. Formal models of traffic fatalities are developed for vehicle occupants … and pedestrians. Reduced-form approximations to these models are estimated using panel data for 32 high-income countries …

size of the risk reduction, income, and exposure to road traffic risks, as measured by length of commute and whether the …

research has demonstrated the uncertain effect of income on mortality due to the presence of other factors. To empirically … assess the difference in the effect of income on mortality rates between more developed and less developed provinces in China … results indicate that a 1% increase in income reduces mortality by over 2%. The results confirm the hypothesis that income has …

Aim/purpose - This paper aims to examine with new empirical evidence the joint relationships between violence, income … inequality, and real income per capita in a simultaneous equation framework using a worldwide sample at the country level. Design …, the results confirm a strong positive relationship between violence and income inequality. Conversely, a negative but non …

This study examines the health capacity to work among older persons in Japan-that is, how much longer older persons can … work based on their health status using nationwide population-based surveys. We first examine how much older persons could … work if they worked as much as those with the same mortality rate in the past (Milligan-Wise method). Second, we estimate …