life", such as health and equality of opportunity. However, per capita GDP has the virtues of easy interpretation and can … preserves the advantages of per capita GDP, but also includes health and equality. We propose a new parsimonious indicator to …

Acemoglu and Johnson (2007) present evidence that improvements in population health do not promote economic growth. We … show that their result depends critically on the assumption that initial health has no causal effect on subsequent economic … growth. We argue that such an effect is likely, primarily because childhood health affects adult productivity. In our …

. -- poverty ; income ; inequality ; infant mortality ; India ; economic reform ; state health expenditure ; panel data … health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is … for education, fertility and state health expenditure, and eliminated once we introduce controls for omitted trends …

This paper investigates the link between health care expenditures and GDP for a sample of 21 OECD countries using … health care expenditures are not only determined by income. The other driving force is medical progress, which is proxied by … different variables, like life expectancy, infant mortality and the share of the elderly. In the extended models, a …

macroeconomic conditions and fatalities. The main finding is that total mortality and deaths from several common causes increase … a 0.4 percent rise in total mortality and 0.4, 1.1, 1.8, 2.1 and 0.8 percent increases in deaths from cardiovascular … physical health. …

usher in lies at the core of the demographic dividends. However, low human capital, poor health and inadequate physical … endogenous growth model applied to the Indian macroeconomic data, as to whether public expenditures in education, health and …. We deploy a Structural Vector Autoregressive Model on data for shares of public expenditure on education and health as …

We study the effects of public pension systems on the retirement timing of older workers and, in turn, the health … for employment, we find that working an additional full year at old age decreases longevity. This mortality effect occurs …. The results imply a small value for an additional year of life, suggesting that workers underestimate the health cost of …

. Exploiting over 40 million individual observations on health and mortality, we find that import had a detrimental effect on …This paper assesses the effect of import competition on the labor market and health outcomes of US workers. We first … physical and mental health that is concentrated in those areas and exhibits strong persistence. It decreased health care …