Malaria ranks among the foremost health issues facing tropical countries. In this paper, we explore the determinants of … negative association between higher malaria morbidity and the growth rate of GDP per capita which is robust to a number of … cross-country differences in malaria morbidity, and examine the linkage between malaria and economic growth. Using a …

focus of analysis beyond traditional health outcomes to include measures of human capital, including labor supply … importance of health and human capital as an engine for economic growth, these findings underscore the role of environmental …

Saving is essential to the health of economies because it provides the wherewithal for investment. In the late … nineteenth century, saving was also essential to the health of urban working-class households. This study brings together … authorities, and health commissioners to illuminate the connections between household savings and health improvements …

health, there is more inequality in the world than if we consider income alone. Such international inequalities in life … hope that economic growth will improve people's health as well as their material living conditions. I argue that the … poverty reduction, there is no evidence that it will deliver automatic health improvements in the absence of appropriate …

the proximate effect of health on GDP per capita. I employ avariety of methods to construct estimates of the return to … preferred estimate, eliminating health differences among countries would reduce the variance oflog GDP per worker by 9.9 percent …I use microeconomic estimates of the effect of health on individual outcomes to construct macroeconomic estimates of …

Economists use micro-based and macro-based approaches to assess the effects of health on economic growth. The micro … economic return on health. We reconcile these two strands of literature by showing that the point estimate of the macroeconomic … effect of health is quantitatively close to that found by aggregating the microeconomic effects, when carefully specifying …

We present evidence showing that the course of economic growth and of health, as measured by stature, Body Mass Index … twentieth. To analyze the change in welfare resulting from changes in health, we estimate a Human Development Index and a Borda … Civil War the increase in income was insufficient to compensate for the decline in health, whereas improvements in health …

experience and health. Our main result is that good health has a positive, sizable, and statistically significant effect on …