health investments. As a novelty, we are able to examine the feedback effects between life expectancy and R&D-driven economic …, and iv) there exists a growth-maximizing size of the health caresector that might lie beyond what is observed in most … growth and contribute to the debate surroundingrising health shares and economic development. …

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 …

Purpose - Health shocks are among the factors that have impeded households from experiencing better welfare. To …. This study estimates the effects of health shocks on households' welfare while examining the mitigating role of social … least squares to estimate the impact of health shocks on households' welfare. Findings - The authors find that health shocks …

Major health shocks can have far-reaching consequences on the welfare of an individual's support and emotional network …. This paper investigates both long-term and short-term spillovers of a major non-communicable health shock, namely a cancer … diagnosis (CD), on the health and well-being of an individual's partner. We rely on data from a longitudinal sample of …