investments in their education and in which we allow for health-related gender differences in productivity. We show that better …We analyze the economic consequences for less developed countries of investing in female health. In so doing we … female health speeds up the demographic transition and thereby the take-off toward sustained economic growth. By contrast …

This paper exploits rich SOEP microdata to analyze state-level variation in health care utilization in Germany. Unlike … individual-level and state-level factors that may contribute to the geographic variation in health care utilization. The raw data …-level differences vanish once we control for individual-level socio-economic characteristics, the respondents' health status, their …

We investigate how, in temporary economic hardship, agents change their consumption of health services, and how this … indicate that consumption of health services critically depends on the existence of user charges versus universal coverage. The …

Doing "more" in healthcare can be a major threat to the delivery of high-quality health care. This study used coarsened … exact matching to test the hypothesis of supplier-induced demand (SID) by comparing health care utilization and expenditures … affiliated with healthcare professionals. Our study also suggests that as the public becomes more informed, the demand of health …

The Three-Gap Model examines the determinants of low-quality health care by examining the patterns and determinants of … perform-this paper defines three gaps for each health worker: the gap between target performance and what they have the … across health workers in a sample can be used to diagnose failures in the system as well as evaluate the outcomes of policy …

causal links. The evidence on the micro linkages from health investments to productivity and income are robust. Progress in …"This paper reviews the correlations and potential links between health and economic growth and summarizes the evidence … on the role of government in improving health status. At the macroeconomic level, the evidence of an impact of health on …

Many studies have shown that obesity is a serious health problem for our society. Empirical analyses often neglect a … number of methodological issues and relevant influences on health. This paper investigates empirically whether neglecting … derives the following results.(1) Many combinations of weight and height lead to the same health status. (2) Obese people have …

The positive cross-country correlation between health and economic growth is well-established, but the underlying … causality between health and economic growth is empirically challenging. Second, the relation between health and economic growth … changes over the process of economic development. Third, different dimensions of health (mortality vs. morbidity, children …

Micro-based and macro-based approaches have been used to assess the effects of health on economic growth. Micro …-based approaches aggregate the return on individual health from Mincerian wage regressions to derive the macroeconomic effects of … population health. Macro-based approaches estimate a generalized aggregate production function that decomposes output into its …