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Changing Research Perspectives on the Global Health Workforce

Bärnighausen, Till - 2009

Past research on the health workforce can be structured into three perspectives - "health workforce planning" (1960 through 1970s); "the health worker as economic actor" (1980s through 1990s); and "the health worker as necessary resource" (1990s through 2000s). During the first phase, shortages...

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Disease and Development Revisited

Bloom, David E. - 2009

In a recent paper, Acemoglu and Johnson (2007) argue that the large increases in population health witnessed in the 20th century may have lowered income levels. We argue that this result depends crucially on their assumption that initial health and income do not affect subsequent economic...

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Fertility, Female Labor Force Participation, and the Demographic Dividend

Bloom, David E. - 2010

We estimate the effect of fertility on female labor force participation in a cross-country panel data set using abortion legislation as an instrument for fertility. We find a large negative effect of the fertility rate on female labor force participation. The direct effect is concentrated among...

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Demographic Change, Social Security Systems, and Savings

Bloom, David E. - 2010

In theory, improvements in healthy life expectancy should generate increases in the average age of retirement, with little effect on savings rates. In many countries, however, retirement incentives in social security programs prevent retirement ages from keeping pace with changes in life...

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Does the Aids Epidemic Really Threaten Economic Growth?

Bloom, David E.; Mahal, Ajay S. - 2021

This study examines the claim that the AIDS epidemic will slow the pace of economic growth. We do this by examining the association, across fifty-one developing and industrial countries for which we were able to assemble data, between changes in the prevalence of AIDS and the rate of growth of...

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Global Demographic Change : Dimensions and Economic Significance

Bloom, David E.; Canning, David - 2021

Transitions from high mortality and fertility to low mortality and fertility can be beneficial to economies as large baby boom cohorts enter the workforce and save for retirement, while rising longevity has perhaps increased both the incentive to invest in education and to save for retirement....

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Economics of the Generation and Management of Municipal Solid Waste

Beede, David N.; Bloom, David E. - 2021

. Industrial countries account for a disproportionate share of world MSW relative to their share of world population, while … developing countries account for a disproportionate share of the world's MSW relative to their share of world income. Cross … disposing of MSW vary widely across countries in accord with the nature of the waste stream and key features of the …

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The Effect of Population Health on Foreign Direct Investment

Alsan, Marcella; Bloom, David E.; Canning, David - 2021

We conduct a panel data analysis of 74 countries over 1980 2000 to investigate whether population health affects foreign direct investment inflows. Our main finding is that health has a positive and significant effect on such inflows for low- and middle-income countries. This finding is...

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Economic Growth and the Demographic Transition

Bloom, David E.; Canning, David; Sevilla, Jaypee - 2021

examines the relationship between population change and economic development in particular regions of the world: East Asia … of the developing world …

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The Wealth of Nations : Fundamental Forces Versus Poverty Traps

Bloom, David E.; Canning, David; Sevilla, Jaypee - 2021

We test the view the large differences in income levels we see across the world are due to differences in underlying …

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