This article analyzes the effect of public policy intervention in the production of health capital on fertility …, private investment in children's health and education and human capital accumulation. I have used a growth model with … an additional factor that affects children's human capital, which is health. I analyze the overall society-wide effect of …

also casts doubts on recent findings about a positive effect of health on education. This is because health raises the … that longevity and health have had a minor effect, if any, on the transition from stagnation to growth via investment in …

The paper addresses the issue of dynamic relationships between environment, health and growth. Its aim is to show that … variables . The hypothesis is that the state of the “natural†environment at first affects negatively health; later on its … improvement, due to sanitation and health infrastructures, possible because of income growth, leads to a better health, followed …

consider health affecting consumer’s utility and then define a Health Production Function where health is the output and … that an increase of consumer’s personal income may have a positive or a negative effect on health. In other words health … may be a normal or an inferior good. It depends on Lifestyle Return to Scale- According to this result, I compute a health …

better health care implies that mortality could be the source of a poverty trap. In our regressions, adult mortality explains …

We examine the relationship between wealth and health through prominent growth indicators and cognitive ability …