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 …

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 …

Recent medical research shows that health is highly influential for learning and the ability to think laterally …; however, past economic studies have failed to empirically examine the influence of health on learning, schooling, and ideas … production; the main drivers of growth in endogenous growth models. This paper constructs a measure of health …

men has declined in most developed countries. We use mortality as a measure of health to assess the capacity to work at …Health and longevity have increased substantially over the last 50 years, yet the labor force participation of older … older ages in 12 OECD countries. For a given level of mortality, the employment rates of older workers vary substantially …

obtain estimates of mortality by disease before the 1940s from the League of Nations and national public health sources … international epidemiological transition, the wave of international health innovations and improvements that began in the 1940s. We …. Using these data, we construct an instrument for changes in life expectancy, referred to as predicted mortality, which is …

I use microeconomic estimates of the effect of health on individual outcomes to construct macroeconomic estimates of … the proximate effect of health on GDP per capita. I employ avariety of methods to construct estimates of the return to … health, which I combine with cross-country and historical data on height, adult survival rates, and age at menarche. Using my …

, leisure, mortality, and inequality, first for a narrow set of countries using detailed micro data, and then more broadly using … behind. Each component we introduce plays a significant role in accounting for these differences, with mortality being most …