In this paper we investigate the joint conditional distribution of health (life expectancy) and income growth, and its …

unimodal one, the evolution of the health distribution has preceded that of income, global inequality and poverty has decreased …,global inequality and poverty would be substantially underestimated if the dependence between the income and health distributions is …We investigate the evolution of global welfare in two dimensions: income per capita and life expectancy. First, we …

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 …

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 …