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Health and economic growth : reconciling the micro and macro evidence

Bloom, David E.; Canning, David; Kotschy, Rainer; … - 2022

Economists use micro-based and macro-based approaches to assess the macroeconomic return to population health. The … the macroeconomic return to health. We reconcile the two approaches by controlling for the indirect effects of health … of health. Our results show that the macroeconomic return to health lies in the range of plausible microeconomic …

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Population aging and economic growth : from demographic dividend to demographic drag?

Kotschy, Rainer; Bloom, David E. - 2023

This paper examines the extent to which changes in working-age shares associated with population aging might slow economic growth in upcoming years. We first analyze the economic effects of changing working-age shares in a standard empirical growth model using country panel data from 1950-2015....

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Long-Term Impacts of Growth and Development Monitoring: Evidence from Routine Health Examinations in Early Childhood

Liang, Yinhe; Peng, Xiaobo; Sun, Meiping Aggie - 2024

monitoring through routine health checkups for all young children (0-6 years) in China. Using data on the program's county … provide evidence of several underlying mechanisms, including improved physical and mental health, better educational outcomes …, increased cognitive skills, and sustained use of routine health checkups among adolescents. …

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The lasting effects of maternal net nutrition during US economic development

Carson, Scott Alan - 2016

. Women's BMIs decreased throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which may have implications for the health and …

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Body mass, nutrition, and disease : current net nutrition during US economic development

Carson, Scott Alan - 2020

When other measures for material welfare are scarce or unreliable, the use of average stature and body mass index (BMI) values is common. BMI reflects the current difference between calories consumed, calories required for work, and to withstand the physical environment. This study evaluates...

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Impact of colonial institutions on economic growth and development in India : evidence from night lights data

Jha, Priyaranjan; Talathi, Karan - 2021

indirect British rule. The large gap persists even after including other controls such as educational attainment, health, and …

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Fetal growth and neurobehavioral outcomes in childhood

Chatterji, Pinka; Kim, Dohyung; Lahiri, Kajal - 2014

Using a sample of sibling pairs from a nationally representative U.S. survey, we examine the effects of the fetal growth rate on a set of neurobehavioral outcomes in childhood measured by parent-reported diagnosed developmental disabilities and behavior problems. Based on models that include...

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The role of the state in economic development

Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2004

This paper discusses the recent literature on the role of the state in economic development. It concludes that government incentives to enact sound policies are key to economic success. It also discusses the evidence on what happens after episodes of economic and political liberalizations,...

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The rule of law : measurement and deep roots

Gutmann, Jerg; Voigt, Stefan - 2015

This paper does three things. First, based on a limited number of theoretically established dimensions, it proposes a new de facto indicator for the rule of law. It is the first such indicator to take the quality of legal norms explicitly into account. Second, using this indicator we shed new...

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The farmer, the blue-collar, and the monk : understanding economic development through saturations of demands and non-homothetic productivity gains

Gray, Elie; Grimaud, André; Le Bris, David - 2018 - This draft: April 9, 2018

To explain the process of development historically documented, we consider a model with three economic sectors (agriculture, manufacturing and services) characterized by different productivity gains and by saturation levels in the demands of agricultural and manufactured goods. Our parsimonious...

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