economic development. As predicted by unified growth theory, I find that primary schooling, rather than income or health …-related variables, is the most robust determinant of the fertility transition. As regards the health transition, both education and … income are significant determinants of mortality rates, but education alone accounts for the bulk of their time variation …

We provide novel evidence on the impact of a child's health shock on parental labor market outcomes. To identify the … timing of the health shock. We do this by comparing parents across families in similar parental and child age cohorts whose … children experienced a health shock at different ages. We show that these families have very similar characteristics and were …

This chapter examines the relationship between health and economic growth. Across countries, income per capita is … highly correlated with health, as measured by life expectancy or a number of other indicators. Within countries, there is … also a correlation between people’s health and income. Finally, over time, the historical evolution of cross-country health …

This paper provides new evidence on the causal relationship between income and health by studying a randomized … measures of physical health as captured by multiple well-validated survey measures and biomarkers derived from blood draws. We … can rule out even very small improvements in physical health and the effect that would be implied by the cross …

life while decreasing after middle age. To be able to reflect these trends in the OECD Strategic Public Health Planning for …

-life health find inconclusive and mixed results. This paper re-evaluates this literature and studies the long-term effects of in …

mortality of at least 50%. We reassess this claim using a four-pronged approach. First, we total smallpox deaths reported by two …. All four approaches lead to a similar conclusion. Mortality from smallpox was likely under 20%, which is much less than …

This paper proposes a new set of public health and long-term care expenditure projections till 2060, following up on … the previous set of projections published in 2006. It disentangles health from longterm care expenditure as well as the … underlying determinants of health and long-term care spending and by extending the country coverage to include BRIICS countries …