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 …

population density and the extent of tests conducted to fine tune the index. The association between per capita health … expenditure and relative performance indices reveals that there are states where relatively sound health infrastructure has not … ensured better performance in curing patients and those relatively weak have done better. But with a multi-dimensional health …

almost as much as that of older people because of inammaging and the self-productivity of health deficits. …In this paper, we develop a life cycle model in which health and longevity are threatened by infectious and chronic … diseases. The model captures that the susceptibility and severity of infectious diseases depend on the accumulated health …

substantial positive spillovers. Our findings demonstrate the great potential of incentives for improving public health and provide …

This article analyzes the effect of public policy intervention in the production of health capital on fertility …, private investment in children's health and education and human capital accumulation. I have used a growth model with … an additional factor that affects children's human capital, which is health. I analyze the overall society-wide effect of …

message is that there is no "health vs. economics" dichotomy. Rather, some degree of lockdown is typically optimal in crisis … like this, balancing its economic costs against its health benefits. Moreover, the optimal lockdown is dynamic, changes …