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 …

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 …

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 …

This study investigates the impact of recent crises in Argentina (including the severe downturn of 2001-2002) on health … aggregate fluctuations on maternal and infant mortality and low birth weight, with countercyclical though not significant … patterns for enrollment rates. Finally, provincial public expenditures on health and education are correlated with the …

potential mechanisms, including health behaviors, lifestyles, earnings, work conditions, and health at the start of the risk … for women. We discuss the implications for policies aimed at improving health and longevity and reducing health inequality …

We investigate the returns to college attendance in Canada in terms of health and mortality reduction. To do so, we …. The impact on mortality are found to be larger than those estimated from the health microsimulation model (hazard ratio of … first use a dynamic health microsimulation model to document how interventions which incentivize college attendance among …

modes; health care access; long-run opportunity, as measured by income mobility and incarceration rates; human mobility; and … underlying population health. We find that the proportions of black and Hispanic residents in a ZIP code are both positively and …

We study how a negative labor market shock like job loss generates health spillovers in couples. Using administrative … data of all workers and firms matched to mortality and patient records, we document that male job displacement increases … the mortality risk for both the man and his partner. For every 10,000 displaced men, there are 27 additional deaths over a …

We compare estimates of the effects of education on health and health behaviour using two different instrumental … find that estimates using each approach are remarkably congruent for a wide range of health outcomes. Effect sizes of …