Economists use micro-based and macro-based approaches to assess the macroeconomic return to population health. The … the macroeconomic return to health. We reconcile the two approaches by controlling for the indirect effects of health … of health. Our results show that the macroeconomic return to health lies in the range of plausible microeconomic …

and birth outcomes in forecasting child health (as indicated by height and weight), child behavioral problems, and a child …

Mainstream economic research regards private debt as a determinant of GDP growth in the longrun. Levine (2005) surveys … focus from the long to the short-run and study whether private debt has a significant impact on GDP growth in the short …

Component Analysis. Our analysis shows that BLI increases with GDP only for poor countries, extending the Easterlin Paradox to …

negatively and independently from the effect of life expectancy. There is no correlation with GDP. Econometric analysis of the …

We construct the world’s centers of gravity for human population, GDP and CO2 emissions by taking the best out of five … of gravity, we find a radical Western shift of GDP and CO2 emissions centers in the 19th century, in sharp contrast with … the stability of the demographic center of gravity. Both GDP and emissions trends are reversed in the first half of the 20 …

By examining discrepancies between officially reported GDP growth figures and the actual economic growth implied by … satellite-based night time light (NTL) density, we investigate whether democracies manipulate officially reported GDP figures … the incumbent. These results are robust to allowing the elasticity of official GDP statistics to NTL to be country …

Economic research has considered Private Debt a determinant of GDP growth for years. By keeping this perspective, the … objective of this work is to understand how much of the GDP response to a monetary shock is due to the variation of private debt …