This paper models the equilibrium dynamics of Malaria disease and aggregate income. It incorporates utility maximizing … private human-host behaviors regarding malaria related health care investments. The paper contrasts how economic and … effects of such public policies on the dynamics of the disease and aggregate income …

mortality below age forty generates productivity gains, which in turn may explain why the positive correlation between health …This paper revisits the relationship between health and growth in light of modern endogenous growth theory. We propose … a unified framework that encompasses the growth effects of both the rate of improvement of health and the level of …

Acemoglu and Johnson (2007) present evidence that improvements in population health do not promote economic growth. We … show that their result depends critically on the assumption that initial health has no causal effect on subsequent economic … growth. We argue that such an effect is likely, primarily because childhood health affects adult productivity. In our …

health and income do not affect subsequent economic growth. Using their data we reject this assumption in favor of a model of …In a recent paper, Acemoglu and Johnson (2007) argue that the large increases in population health witnessed in the 20 …th century may have lowered income levels. We argue that this result depends crucially on their assumption that initial …