Shastry, Gauri Kartini; Weil, David N. - In: Journal of the European Economic Association 1 (2003) 2-3, pp. 387-396
We use development accounting techniques to assess the contribution of health to differences in income per capita among countries. Rather than rely on regressions in aggregate data, we build up estimates of the effect of health starting from microeconomic data. We examine both a particular...