Countries in sub-Saharan Africa are some of the poorest and least developed in the world, with deplorable health and … health levels, education and institutional quality as explanatory variables. My analysis yields some evidence, especially in … panel regressions with time-fixed effects, in support of the hypothesis that countries with poorer health and education …

In a recent research paper, health economists David Cutler and Adriana Lleras-Muney analyze data primarily from the … National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), an annual cross-sectional household survey administered by the National Center for … Health Statistics (NCHS) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). They find that higher levels of education …