understanding of both the processes and causal paths that underlie the intricate relationship between health and wealth (income … the traditional and emerging perspectives on the health-income relationship, this literature review presents a non …The policies for better health, poverty reduction, and less inequality, throughout the world, require thorough …

understanding of both the processes and causal paths that underlie the intricate relationship between health and wealth (income … the traditional and emerging perspectives on the health-income relationship, this literature review presents a non …The policies for better health, poverty reduction, and less inequality, throughout the world, require thorough …

understanding of both the processes and causal paths that underlie the intricate relationship between health and wealth (income … the traditional and emerging perspectives on the health-income relationship, this literature review presents a non …The policies for better health, poverty reduction, and less inequality, throughout the world, require thorough …

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 accumulation and the level of health. Based on …

going back to the beginning of the 20th century several basic facts about the relationship between national income and life … national income and life expectancy will not persist, particularly over the ranges of income of primary interest to the Human … existing “puzzles” come from using either very short time-horizons or very small moves in income per capita when the Preston …

advances (e.g., antibiotics), the analysis establishes that countries with higher levels of mortality from infectious diseases …

analysis establishes that countries with higher levels of infectious-disease mortality prior to the medical breakthrough …

This chapter examines the relationship between health and economic growth. Across countries, income per capita is … also a correlation between people’s health and income. Finally, over time, the historical evolution of cross-country health … convergence of health has been much faster than the convergence of income. How are health and income related? Theoretically, there …

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 …

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 …