Bangladesh has experienced rapid fertility decline and reductions in under-five mortality over the last three decades … public sector interventions, notably reproductive health and immunization, supported by external assistance from the World …

GOOD HEALTH IS A CRUCIAL PART OF WELL-BEING BUT SPENDING ON HEALTH CAN BE JUSTIFIED ON ECONOMIC GROUNDS. THE GOAL OF … REDUCING POVERTY PROVIDES A DIFFERENT BUT EQUALLY POWERFUL CASE FOR HEALTH INVESTMENTS. HOWEVER, IF POLICYMAKERS ARE TO … ACCELERATE THE SUBSTANTIAL HEALTH GAINS OF RECENT DECADES, ESPECIALLY FOR THE POOR IN AFRICAN COUNTRIES SUCH AS NIGERIA, THE …

Good health is a crucial part of well-being but spending on health can be justified on economic grounds. The goal of … reducing poverty provides a different but equally powerful case for health investments. However, if policymakers are to … accelerate the substantial health gains of recent decades, especially for the poor in African countries such as Nigeria, the …

International Economic Review). The model is calibrated to pre-industrial mortality data from England, France and Sweden. Fitting …We set up an open-economy, three-country version of the endogenous- mortality model of Lagerloef (forthcoming in the … parameters to match observed rates of correlation in mortality rates, the model can also account for: (1) differences in the …

Sweden represents an archetypal welfare state economy, with extensive government safety nets. Some scholars have … policies. This paper argues rather, that the permanent loss in output following Sweden’s banking crisis in the early 1990s …

This paper analyzes the impact of IMF-supported programs on health and education spending in a large time-series cross …-known endogeneity of IMF-supported programs, the paper finds, contrary to the conventional wisdom, that health and education do not …

A number of recent studies have illustrated the link between health and growth (Gallup and Sachs 2000, McCarthy et al …. 2000, Bhargava et al. 2000). This paper argues that a key mechanism through which health affects growth is via total factor … particular attention to three indicators of health that are particularly problematic in developing regions: malnutrition, malaria …

A large literature documents a strong correlation between health and educational outcomes. In this paper we investigate … the role of cognitive ability in the health–education nexus. Using NLSY data, we show that cognitive ability accounts for … roughly one quarter of the association between schooling and health. Both schooling and ability are strongly associated with …