Malaria ranks among the foremost health issues facing tropical countries. In this paper, we explore the determinants of … negative association between higher malaria morbidity and the growth rate of GDP per capita which is robust to a number of … cross-country differences in malaria morbidity, and examine the linkage between malaria and economic growth. Using a …

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

We present evidence showing that the course of economic growth and of health, as measured by stature, Body Mass Index … twentieth. To analyze the change in welfare resulting from changes in health, we estimate a Human Development Index and a Borda … Civil War the increase in income was insufficient to compensate for the decline in health, whereas improvements in health …

provision of adequate diets for young children in the United States. An examination of the Health and Nutrition Examination …

Economists use micro-based and macro-based approaches to assess the effects of health on economic growth. The micro … economic return on health. We reconcile these two strands of literature by showing that the point estimate of the macroeconomic … effect of health is quantitatively close to that found by aggregating the microeconomic effects, when carefully specifying …

of 1832--1860 in the US. This result supports the veracity of the Antebellum Puzzle--a deterioration of health during …

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 rate of improvement of health and the level of … health. Based on cross-country regressions over the period 1960-2000, where we instrument for both variables, we find that a …

health, there is more inequality in the world than if we consider income alone. Such international inequalities in life … hope that economic growth will improve people's health as well as their material living conditions. I argue that the … poverty reduction, there is no evidence that it will deliver automatic health improvements in the absence of appropriate …