In a recent paper, Acemoglu and Johnson (2007) argue that the large increases in population health witnessed in the 20 … health and income do not affect subsequent economic growth. Using their data we reject this assumption in favor of a model of …, exogenous improvements in health due to technical advances associated with the epidemiological transition appear to have …

We conduct a panel data analysis of 74 countries over 1980 2000 to investigate whether population health affects … foreign direct investment inflows. Our main finding is that health has a positive and significant effect on such inflows for … low- and middle-income countries. This finding is consistent with the view that health is an integral component of human …

experience and health. Our main result is that good health has a positive, sizable, and statistically significant effect on …